Subj : Re: This Area Pt2   01/02
To   : All
From : yl112@cornell.edu
Date : Tue Oct 10 2000 03:37 am

From: yl112@cornell.edu
Subject: Re: This Area Pt2   01/02



On 9 Oct 2000, Ed Williams wrote:

> Y>Problems with this for my particular situation (though I'd love to see
> Y>fidonet revived--and to see if the military history echo is at all around
> Y>anymore!):
> 
> Certainly didn't mean to indicate that it's a thing for anyone to do,
> opening a public BBS and all.  But one could certainly become a POINT
> off any of the many nodes in Fidonet and be able to do mail in a
> fashion that would be more compatible with the BBS systems you're
> posting to, and I think that's worth the trouble any day.

<shaking head>  Classes come first.  The conlang list I participate in 
actively is pretty much the only one I can afford to deal with right 
now.  After I graduate perhaps I'll have slightly more time (though I 
hear grad school is worse).

> Well I've not really gotten into the things a BBS can do so well.
> I've been over here yelling it so much at these web faced dolts I run
> into that nothing seem's to make a difference to them.  So I don't
> really have at hand any one thing that makes people go "Oh Yeah,
> that's true", except to say that there are significant differences in
> the way the two engines run, which bring out pretty major changes in
> the way people act when on either system.  ON the internet changes in
> personality are very well hidden behind form factor result exchange,
> whereas on a BBS people feel much more like a part of something.
> 
> At any rate I have proved it, it just takes far more time to explain
> than it does to show someone.

<trying to shut down math major definition of "proof">  I see what you're 
saying, but sometimes you don't need personal interaction, you just need 
information.  For personal information I go to the gamer's club in 
person.  The BBS experience was great when I was in Korea and had no 
access to the only gaming communities I knew of (HS seniors and the folks 
on the 8th Army base).  It's still a good thing, but has gotten cut out 
due to lack of opportunity and other, higher priorities in my life.

Thanks for speaking out, and thanks for the BBS listings!  I'll hunt 
around for them sometime after I graduate.  (And pray that people still 
have copies of SLMR around--gosh, how I *miss* that program!  I liked it 
much better than any of my email clients.)

YHL

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