Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To   : C.G. LEARN
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Apr 04 2021 09:18 am

 MJ> I tend to think of Net2BBS as NetSerial Lite.

 CL> It's not, they are two compleatly different programs.

It would be better if the two were merged.
 
 CL> If you have 256 nodes set up in your BBS config, they should show up
 CL> as just "offline" or "Waiting For Call". Honestly in todays bbs world,
 CL> why  would you want 256 nodes. If a caller hit "Whos Online", and has

Because it is endearing and cute.

 CL> to  scroll through 12 pages of "waiting for calls", he/she is lible to 
 CL> disconnect and move on. I would love to have all my nodes busy with 

People would scroll until the end out of curiosity.

 CL> callers, but the fact is, that's not gonna happen these days. I have
 CL> 15  nodes available, 5 for each one of my systems, and It's a good day
 CL> if 2  nodes are busy at the same time by legit callers. Let's face it,
 CL> most of todays callers are other sysops in the hobby. I've been in this
 CL> hobby  since the early 90's, and I've seen the day when I had ten
 CL> callers on at one time. I used to run a paid system, with 10 incomming
 CL> phone lines,  and if felt good making that money, but I always put it

It sounds like you have a marketing and value proposition problem. Maybe if you held cash prize competitions you could get 100 simultaneous online callers. You  could fund it with OnlyFans.

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