Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : Time Warrior
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 12:55 pm

  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: Time Warrior to Frank Vest on Tue Aug 02 2005 04:37 am

 >  > > You think that was a great documentary? I thought it had a lot of defea
 >  > > attitudes towards BBSing and a lot of people pining over the 300 baud d
 >  > > and pay-for BBS's acting like a bunch of vietnam vets... The ansi scene
 >  > > really pissed me off as well as it was only the views of people who had
 >  > > and gone in the ansi scene, not from any of the people who still do it 
 >  > > they enjoy it and aren't into all of the politics that existed before. 
 >  > > got the technology nowadays to do tons more than we ever thought possib
 >  > > 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 i
 > about where we've been (mostly) and where we're going.

I don't remember seeing anything in the documentary about "where we're going".
It referred to the sysops and users of today as "holdouts" and claimed that
"only a few hundreds BBSes exist today", which is plainly false.

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

I agree and glad you got a chance to see it.

                                                  digital man

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