Subj : Re: The BBS Documentary To : Tracker1 From : Grymmjack Date : Sat Jun 11 2005 10:00 am > > think you had mentioned that it was almost like a crooked thing since the > > who ran boardwatch and that other software were in cahoots and made the > > convention etc.. > Boardwatch was a pretty cool magazine, but their bbs reviews really seemed t > favor majorbbs, and searchlight boards yeah, go figure. the creator of boardwatch was like best buddies with the guy who made major bbs i believe. > > too much emphasis/attention was paid to fidonet and boardwatch guy. it was > > very biased. > not too surprising on fidonet.. I didn't really ever like it, was too busy f > someone that had a job/life to keep up with, was "real names only" which was the guy who created fidonet is a genius (tom jennings) and he has this very funky attitude about life which is cool (i liked him alot). the politics and all the crap that goes with fidonet is what turned me off about it, both in use and participation on the boards even NOW, and on the DVD... > somewhat odd to me.. and on the flip side, they pretty much established bbs > message networking tech... Boardwatch was a cool mag, but wasn't "great" by yeah and that's great. certainly it deserves honorable mention and more, but i felt the focus of how the interviews went and the story went with the fidonet parts of the film were way biased and stupid. clearly you could tell that jason scott was a fidohead :) > message networking tech... Boardwatch was a cool mag, but wasn't "great" by > any means, and definately gave favor to board reviews for those that ran the > heavy advertiser's software. yeah figure that one out :) - grymmjack .