Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Frank Vest
From : Time Warrior
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 04:37 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Frank Vest
  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: Frank Vest to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Jul 31 2005 10:21 pm

 > Sinister x wrote:
 > > You think that was a great documentary? I thought it had a lot of defeatis
 > > attitudes towards BBSing and a lot of people pining over the 300 baud days
 > > and pay-for BBS's acting like a bunch of vietnam vets... The ansi scene pa
 > > really pissed me off as well as it was only the views of people who had co
 > > and gone in the ansi scene, not from any of the people who still do it b/c
 > > they enjoy it and aren't into all of the politics that existed before. We'
 > > got the technology nowadays to do tons more than we ever thought possible
 > > when dial-up was the only option.

 > Since it is a history, what did you expect?

 When people are negetive, all they see is negetivity. The BBS Documentary is 
about where we've been (mostly) and where we're going. The vast majority of 
the old dialup stuff *is* dead. I don't see how SX can say it was defeatist 
when Scott does say the BBS Scene still exsists. Even Vinton Cerf and Ward 
Christensen acknowledged that it does. Randy STILL runs Chinet.

 The BBS Scene is evolving, and as well it should. I'm GLAD I have broadband 
speeds, no long need to dial LD to get to a BBS outside my "calling range", 
to have access to easily send / recv echomail, usenet, email, etc... world 
wide without the large bill attatched and the extremely slow reply 
durrations.

 Things like IRC, AIM, etc... allow BBS'ers to communicate more easily, 
Synchronet (and other developers) to be able to share ideas and cooperate. I 
think SX's bitching is the "defeatist attitude".

 So Frank, I agree with you. I personally thought The BBS Documentary was 
extremely well done.

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