Subj : Re: NZers
To   : Spiro Harvey
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Sun Sep 28 2014 20:29:38

On 09/28/14, Spiro Harvey pondered and said...
 
 SH> The biggest problem seems to be that the majority of people prefer to use
 SH> whatever is the current hip technology to communicate. I've had a few old
 SH> BBSing friends log in and create accounts for the sake of nostalgia, but
 SH> didn't stick at it.
 SH> 
 SH> Perhaps having a good local place to chat will help, and I think that
 SH> until they can log in with their cellphones, many won't get back into it.

For the benfit of the wider group Spiro and I chatted online a few days back
about this as well. I have an idea whereby I aim to package up a turnkey BBS
for folks to unzip and run out of the box. The BBS starts with a defacto guest
Fidonet address quickly and is then fed several echoareas from Agency that
acting as the HUB for 770 and 772.

I think the chances of mass numbers of users logging into a BBS are slim but
the chances of interested past sysops or just others who want to know more
picking up a turnkey system they can install, press play and use are far
greater.

If we got 10 extra folks running these easy to use turnkey systems then that
blows out of the water the declining figures for Fidonet NZ very quickly.

Past sysops could/would well be interested in this as would others on
geekzone.co.nz

The good thing about the Mystic BBS package both you and use is that it's
being proactivly developed by James in 2014. To see a bit of software with
built in binkp, polling software, echomail and file tossing etc. being worked
on month after month is really exciting. I think Mystic is the ideal swiss
army knife to do the turnkey solution job.

I'd be interested to hear what everyone else thinks. Spiro thought perhaps
offering VM ware options as well although that's a bit beyond me at present.

Anyway first steps are for me to to build an image of a turnkey BBS and test
it out. Perhaps David you would be interested in being my guinea pig?

Food for thought...

Best, Paul


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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