Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Jazzman
From : Time Warrior
Date : Wed Jun 29 2005 05:22 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Jazzman
  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Jazzman to Tracker1 on Fri Jun 24 2005 08:36 pm

 > To: Tracker1

 >  > >> Sure I you can.. I can do a 500+ line ansi in pablodraw.. can't say
 >  > >> the same for thedraw.

 >  > > Yep.. that's in big demand these days! <sarcasm>

 >  > Perhaps thousands of bbs setups with the same, stock, unmodified setups
 >  > *could* be wrong?

 > Do we actually have 1000+ Synchronet bbs's (modified or not) out in
 > telnet-land  ?

 > Whatever the number is, i look at it sort of like modding a car. Some
 > will do this and some will do that. When it comes to cars, some
 > prefer a plain-ole sleeper. It's a matter of taste i suppose.

 > Didn't you say back a few posts to someone else that you wouldn't
 > want to call a bbs that made you press enter more than 6 times to
 > get to the main menu ?  That's kind of how i would feel about 500+
 > line ansis. Painful! ;-)

 Kind of a bad comparison. With a car, you need to either have ALOT of money 
or skill to mod out something like that (ussually both). All you need is to 
know enough about computers to run a BBS and THEDRAW. Ansi's don't need to be 
313373 but when the users see the Sysop cares enough to customize the board, 
the users will care also.

What i find amusing is new Sysops who piss and moan when the users don't just 
flood in after 48 hours of putting it online. lol ... I have over 200 users 
and a nice setup but it takes YEARS to get things going in most cases. This 
is just HOBBY I don't understand why some people are so impatient <shrug>

There are ways to narrow down the time but still... this isn't the haydays 
anymore. Back in the day in Chicago with 1,000+ BBS's and hundreds of 
thousnads (if not millions) of users, a 48 hour booster was possible. These 
days it simply isn't.

Chicago, being the place where BBS's were born -- had (and still has) over 3 
million people within the city limits and at least 20 million or more people 
within the whole Chicagoland area. If I had to guess, "Chicagoland" spans 
over 200 miles in every direction if not moreso. We've got ALOT of 
surrounding suburbs. So it was easy for us to have at least a million users 
total in the local scene when refering to the ENTIRE Chicagoland area.

We were the largest because BBS's was born here. However most of the major 
cities did tend to do at least half as well. Among the states that had a 
LARGE amount og Sysops and users (that i can remeber) were: IL, PA, MI, NY, 
CA, AZ, WA, FL and thats about it for MASSIVE OBSCENE activity that I can 
recell. The rest of the states still didn't do too bad.

MOST states I think had at LEAST 100 boards with at LEAST 1,000 users state 
wide at minimum. I remeber that even Hawaii had a descent amount at one time.

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