Subj : Rise and fall of BBSes
To   : Pbmountaincat
From : Patch
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 10:27 am

  Re: Rise and fall of BBSes
  By: Pbmountaincat to Mweeby on Mon Sep 26 2005 07:47 am

 > I used to run a Spitfire BBS at home, and ran a Spitfire BBS at work when I
 > worked for a local college.  It was great, it started out as a class project
 > when the class was over, I was working in the computer lab and maintained it
 > for years until I left that job and the BBS left with me.
 > 
 > I am dabbling in Synchronet now and still trying to figure things out, but
 > it's up, and dove-net is working.
 > 
 > Very different from Spitfire, haven't looked at the doors and such but havin
 > it up and running out of the box is great.

I can agree, since I'm an 'old-school' WWIV sysop back in the day.  The thing
about BBS's is that the mentality of younger generation knows how to use the
internet to get the information, and disregard the community and bind that BBS
people have.

I've been wanting to get my BBS back up and running for a while now, and I'm
glad I found this software.  Sure it has it's in's and out's, and it's most
definately different from WWIV, but like any new software it takes time to
learn, but once you do it's like riding a bike.

What the other Sysop (notice no capital O, hehe) may have thought was that a
BBS was the way they wanted to go, and when they found out the limitations of
it, the time and effort it would take to put into it, the care for the users,
the system and the knowledge that we may never get the 'callers' that we used
to when BBS's were the central bit of communications, you do it because you
want to.  Because of the love for it, and you relish in whatever the experience
gives you. =)

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