Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: Are there others?
From:    Weatherman #1 @1 (Mark)
To:      Dmxrob #1 @130
Date:    Tue Feb 09, 2021 17:09

D> I do recall something along those lines. I know in the STL area, people
D> literally chose sides and if you were part of the WWIVnet crowd, you
D> didn't interact with the WWIVlink folks. It was like a huge turf war.
D> Never made much sense to me to be honest. It became one big shit show of
D> cliques and in my mind really marked the beginning of the end for our big
D> WWIV BBS community we had in this area. People just didn't want to deal
D> with drama, and I don't blame them. What once was open, accepting boards
D> became nothing more than cliques where people hung out on and if you
D> weren't part of the clique, you didn't get access, etc.

Yeah, I think it started when Wayne forced WWIV registration to be in WWIVnet.
I will admit that I wasn't registered until the mandate, but did join WWIVlink,
ICEnet, and several others.  There was a date deadline that if you were not
registered, your BBS got removed from WWIVnet.

- Mark

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