Subj : Re: Why?
To   : All
From : Black Panther
Date : Thu Sep 17 2020 02:07:42

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 21:28:00 GMT
Ogg wrote:

> 4/10
> Hello Avon!
> 
> ** On Thursday 17.09.20 - 12:28, Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:
> 
>  A> There's a New Zealand Facebook group I posted to a few
>  A> times about how BBSing was still active and inviting folks
>  A> to sample it again via Agency BBS etc. etc. and the
>  A> reaction was almost zero :(  
> 
>  A> What I found was that the group was really made up of
>  A> folks who enjoyed the old face to face meetups of the 90s
>  A> and had reconnected via social media. Their interest in
>  A> the medium that had brought them together the first time
>  A> around was seemingly absent. Sadly.  
> 
> Maybe they didn't quite have the simple means to reconnect  
> with their modern pcs?
> 
> Even now, maybe the requirement for using a terminal program  
> probably falls on deaf ears and is an extra layer to  
> implement.  Besides, the FB users are probably happy with the  
> web way of doing things, that's why they're on FB.  ???
> 
> 
> --- OpenXP 5.0.46
>  * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

This message is from fsx_gen. It has an interesting number at the top.
4/10. It looks like part of an address from the kludge lines.

-- 

Dan Richter
aka Black Panther
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS
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