Subj : Re: The Documentary... To : Time Warrior From : Tharius Date : Sat Aug 20 2005 03:28 am "Time Warrior" wrote in message news:4304B34F.32565.altsync@malkaviabbs.com... > 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 Now ain't that the truth. > 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. I submit for consideration that there defacto a higher ratio of coders:noncoders than there has ever been before ... and to support that I point to this very conference. We have many talented people here and that breeds potential (and toe fungus if you're not careful) ... Less of everything? No my friend, much more ... but we have to think different ... if we want the users we'll have to go back out and get them, not just wait for the calls to roll on in. We definately have to get out there and get some non-sysop users :) But it can work. I had a friend a couple of years ago send me a link to an online game server. This friend had never BBSed. The game was Tradewars :P > 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. I'm happier here on the sidelines. The main stream is too demanding and has too many fickle people involved in it. If 1 in every 10000 people accessing the internet was an avid BBSer, we'd have something :) As to funding, well, I don't suppose there's much I can say about that. At 29 I'm a part time student at McMaster, working full time to keep a roof over my head while my fiancee works on her teaching degree. I can afford my high speed access by doing things like parking my truck and buying a 6 pack instead of a 2-4 :) I guess as a developing programmer I have the advantage of lots of involvement based only on typing a whole bunch ... but you know I've gone to internet cafe's to do demonstrations of BBSing and it didn't cost a cent. Food for thought.... internet cafes will usually back anything that keeps people online. It's a starting point. --- þ Synchronet þ [aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org] - Come fly our friendly skies! .