Subj : The BBS Documentary
To   : Grymmjack
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 04:35 pm

  Re: The BBS Documentary
  By: Grymmjack to Digital Man on Thu Jun 09 2005 06:20 am

 >  >  > Jason Scott tried to cover the big bullet points, but he missed out on
 >  >  > of it.
 > 
 >  > I don't know how much of his interview with me was included, but I was ra
 >  > disappointed as Scott was extremely tired at the time and was having
 >  > difficulting asking interesting (and relevant) questions. Also, I found S
 >  > experience with and opinion of the BBS history/scene was fairly limited t
 >  > personal experiences (which apparently did not include any Synchronet sys
 > 
 > yeah i think you told me that he showed up way late at night or something.
 > the guy (jason scott) probably got lost or something. anyway, he is by no
 > means an expert, and i don't think he ever really tried to make himself see
 > that way, in the bbs world. in fact, up until this documentary i had not eve
 > seen him relate with the bbs scene in any manner with the exception of
 > hosting textfiles.com ... so go figure that.. i was approached to be in the
 > film but i declined because i felt that what he was doing was exploiting
 > something i loved and trying to turn a profit on it, etc. i am kind of
 > disappointed in my decision because i missed my 5 minutes of fame ;P but oh
 > well. i was only going to be in the art scene/underground parts anyway.
 > 
 > yeah i was shocked that he didn't cover more of the struggle you guys had
 > with the commercialization of the bbs softwares.. like we all know synch use
 > to be a pay software, but what we didn't hear about was how difficult it was
 > to get any kind of recognition in the big time at the conventions, etc. i
 > think you had mentioned that it was almost like a crooked thing since the gu
 > who ran boardwatch and that other software were in cahoots and made the
 > convention etc..

We definitely discussed it (commercialization, Boardwatch, ONE BBSCON, etc.).
Maybe he edited it out. <shrug>

 >  >  > Rob, why didn't you appear in the "Death of the BBS" section?
 > 
 >  > I wasn't involved in the editing (obviously). :-)
 > 
 > did you guys discuss any of that stuff when he interviewed you?

Hmm... I don't really recall that discussed specifically, no.

                                                  digital man

Snapple "Real Fact" #66:
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.

.