Subj : Re: The Documentary... To : Tharius From : Time Warrior Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 12:11 pm From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet To: Tharius Re: Re: The Documentary... By: Tharius to Time Warrior on Wed Aug 17 2005 08:49 am > To: Time Warrior > "Time Warrior" wrote in message > news:42FF0985.32500.altsync@malkaviabbs.com... > > > > understatement. Rob and his team are certainly moving in the right > > > > direction. I of course have my wish list, but I think my efforts are > > > bes > > > > centered on getting up to speed with the modern set of circumstances. > > We are all that "team". The BBS Scene is about cooperation. It doesn't > > mater how little or much you have to contribute. Every little bit > > helps. > Certainly we are all the team, but some of the team works really really hard > ... not like the friend who orders a small pizza for everyone to share then > drinks 12 beer outta the fridge :) No, I think it's more like this. The friend contributes a few bucks towards the football pizza, eats 1/4 of it and also proceeds to complain that he thinks the beer sucks. lol I can't program so I contribute as best I can. This makes it harder for me to do so but if life wasn't a challenge it would be boring :-) The ability to use whats already there completely in a new way is just as important as being able to create entirely new things from scratch. I fall into the first catagory. Rob falls into both I think. BBS'ing is an age old concept but he's applied some very new ideas into that as have alot of other third party programmers. > > I prefer the overall scene now compared to what it was, because most of > > the > > lamers went to AOL where they belong and the remaining BBS people are more > > serious and truly wish to make things happen. > I must agree that the scene seems more interesting. It certainly has more > potential than ever it did. The thought of a 10 node BBS was a major > undertaking back in the day ... and it's what we all wanted to do, no one > wanted to run single node if they had an alternative. Now we have some real > power to be creative at our finger tips, the price being a steeper learning > curve. That curve is lessened by the great people who have hung around and > help like crazy. The new scene is both easier and harder. Motivating people to cooperate is harder. There are less people in the scene. Less programmers. Less of everything and everyone. We need to get into the main stream for alot of problems on the Internet to be solved, however the lack of funds makes this a draggingly slow proccess. On the otherside of the coin, the greater challenge is more fun and yeilds greater rewards. If it wasn't a challenge, IMHO, it would be boring. To be where we are to maybe, eventually, surpass and BECOME the main stream and BECOME the standard once again -- victory would be much more sweet because the challenges were greater and our resources were much fewer than those of the huge monster corporations. Most things in life worth doing are NOT easy and take alot of time. -- .---------------------------------------------------------------. | [TiME WaRRiOR] aka [Dave Kelso] AIM: Twar782 | +o Malkavia BBS | | www : synchsupport.net - malkaviabbs.com - xpresit.net | | www$: josephsjewelersonline.com - preferedinsurance.com | | @: time.warrior@malkaviabbs. com | \______________________________________________________________/ --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76 * Malkavia - Chicago, IL - telnet://malkaviabbs.com --- Synchronet 3.13a-Win32 NewsLink 1.83 .