Subj : Rise and fall of BBSes
To   : Patch
From : Ralph Smole
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 11:22 am

  Re: Rise and fall of BBSes
  By: Patch to Pbmountaincat on Mon Sep 26 2005 11:27 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
 >  > worked for a local college.  It was great, it started out as a class proj
 >  > when the class was over, I was working in the computer lab and maintained
 >  > 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, bu
 >  > it's up, and dove-net is working.
 >  >
 >  > Very different from Spitfire, haven't looked at the doors and such but ha
 >  > 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 thin
 > 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 B
 > 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 o
 > 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 use
 > 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 experie
 > gives you. =)
 > 

Spitfire was one of the many BBS softwares that I ran Nimbus on. Used to love
it. I ran Spitfire,Shotgun,Wildcat,Renegade,Mystic and even tried Telix
hostmode. Finally settled on Synch and plan to remain with it for good.
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           Yes, Guns DO kill people!
           The Nimbus BBS. Briar,TX
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