Subj : BBS Meetings IRL
To   : Digital Man
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 11:27 am

  Re: BBS Meetings IRL
  By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Sat Sep 17 2005 11:55 pm

 >   Re: BBS Meetings IRL
 >   By: Sam Alexander to Digital Man on Sat Sep 17 2005 09:26 pm
 > 
 >  >   Re: BBS Meetings IRL
 >  >   By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Sat Sep 17 2005 04:25 pm
 >  >
 >  >  >   Re: BBS Meetings IRL
 >  >  >   By: Sam Alexander to All on Sat Sep 17 2005 01:32 pm
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  > Hi all,
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > Just curious, since there's really no good local BBS group to me, I
 >  >  >  > wondering if there's any sort of BBS group that meets on a national
 >  >  >  > Maybe even a Synchronet user group that meets once a year someplace
 >  >  >  > curious.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Pretty sure the answer is no. There may be some small regional BBS mee
 >  >  > but nothing nationally, that I know of.
 >  >
 >  > If you guys ever did want to setup something, even if just an afternoon
 >  > meet-up someplace, I'd sure be willing to travel to attend :)  There's so
 >  > many folks using Synchronet and still running or active in BBSes in gener
 >  > I'd think such a meet-up would be worthwild.
 >  >
 >  > Just some thoughts.  The close community feeling is what I loved so much
 >  > about the BBSes of 10+ years ago, and even though telnet'able bbses are
 >  > awesome and keeping the scene alive, it'd be awesome to actually put some
 >  > faces on the names in here.
 > 
 > I'm not really in a position to arrange such an event, but if anyone does, I
 > consider attending, if practical, of course. :-)
 > 

Hi..

True, setting-up such an event is a considerable task, but I didn't know if 
you guys had ever talked about or considered something like this before.  If 
it were something you'd consider attending along with many other sysops and 
users, who knows, might be the spark to get BBSes rolling again :) 

Sam



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