Subj : Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Apr 10 2023 07:24 am

-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dennis Scott <=-

 SD> You obviously have never tried to make money from a BBS...it was cool
 SD> in the 90s but BBSing is a small niche hobby these days.

I had a subscription offering back in the '90s that was cheap - I had a
couple of long time callers and that guy who pulled the whole Fido
backbone down into Bluewave. It was never intended to cover the bills,
was more a way for people to give back if they wanted to.

Where running a BBS became more lucrative was at the quarterly (or more
often) get-togethers. Many pints of beer and coffee were bought for me
which meant more than the subscriptions.




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