Subj : Re: BBS Population
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Sun Nov 27 2022 14:50:48

-=> Nightfox wrote to Ogg <=-

 Ni> Wasn't Boardwatch a national magazine though?  I don't remember how BBS
 Ni> listings were organized in it though.

Heading over to archive.org and looking at the March 1994 copy of Boardwatch.

There was a section that was like a Classified Ad section and it looks like it
was ordered by phone number.  This section was probably a "pay" section, and
most sysops probably didn't want to do that.

Then there was the National List of BBSs.  That looks to be ordered
alphabetically (which really makes no sense to me).  Each BBS gets a single
line, as opposed to a paragraph in the "Classified Ads" area.

 Ni> There was a local computer
 Ni> magazine in my area that had BBS listings in the back, and I often
 Ni> learned about local BBSes from there.

Lucky you.  I never lived in a area that could support a local computer
magazine (except as part of a club).

 Ni> There was also a local BBS list
 Ni> as a text file that was shared among local BBSes in my area.

In my area, there was a guy who would compile a list of all BBSs in the area
code.  Periodically (like maybe 2-3 times per year), he'd call all of them.  Of
course, BBSs would advertize other BBSs and he'd get more systems for his list.
 The end result was that he would publish out his list and you often found new
BBSs to call.


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