Subj : Re: Rise and fall of BBSe
To   : Patch
From : Mweeby
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 04:12 pm


"Patch" <patch@VERT/LOTW2> wrote in message
news:4337F755.27.dove-gen@lotw2.servebbs.net...
>   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. =)
>
Couldn't have said it better.  I ran wwiv back in 93 and 94, and there was
a thriving wwiv community in the Albany NY area back in those days.  Broke
me heart watching it all fizzle away, and I'm aware of the difference in
the nature of the callers. I used to be bothered by the fact that most of
the callers were sysops or had been at one time, but now I don't care.
I'm in this for my own fun, and if I get users along the way, cool.
Look there, somebody is logging in now.

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