Subj : Re: FidoGazette Vol 13 n
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Simon Geddes
Date : Wed Sep 11 2019 21:30:00

At 9:29 AM on 10 Sep 19, Sean Dennis said to Dale Shipp:


SD> At least we have access.  I'm not complaining.  Like I said in an
SD> earlier message, I really don't use the bandwidth.  I'm at the point now
SD> to where if I wasn't running a telnet-capable BBS, I'd just go back to
SD> dialup.

Sorry to butt in - but I hope more BBSes start to offer dial-up. And more users 
switch off their routers and dust off their modems.

With cheap second hand modems aplenty and landlines generally sitting unused, I 
imagine for some sysops this wouldn't be such a major task/outlay. But would 
there be the users who would call? I think there's a bit of a network effect 
problem going on here...sysops don't feel there's people that still want to use 
dial-up, and users don't bother with modems because so few boards offer a 
number to call.  Or probably more realistically, very few people even care. 

Personally, I'm tempted to start a new dial-up only BBS. But I suspect I will 
get about zero callers.

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