Subj : BBS History
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Mweeby
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 06:19 am

  Re: BBS History
  By: Sam Alexander to Patch on Fri Sep 30 2005 05:14 pm

 > the heck of it??  Some computer folks just want the latest and greatest
 > without looking back.  Like I've said before, using BBSes is like a car
 > person driving a classic car.
 > 
 > I'd suggest start dropping mentions of your BBSes in non BBS forums.  Put
 > your BBS tag on Newsgroup posts from your board.  Call into tech shows and
 > talk about your BBS or others.  I mentioned my BBS on comp.os.linux.misc
 > about 2 weeks ago and got like 10 folks create new accounts from that, and
 > probably 8 of those 10 commented about not knowing there were even any BBSes
 > still around.
 > 
 > ANyway, that's my two cents...  I think the BBS can come back, but it'll
 > take some work.

Well I'm not on that many newsgroups, at least ones where I post regularly, but
today I'm going to start appending my web url to my board and I am going to
post in a somewhat local mailing list I'[m on and see what happens there.

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