Subj : Re: BBS Chat
To   : hollowone
From : Avon
Date : Sat Jun 10 2023 01:45 pm

On 18 May 2023 at 01:13a, hollowone pondered and said...
 
 ho> There is nothing sarcastic in my response, honestly, the best place to
 ho> talk about BBSs and life I found are the BBSes themselves.

I agree

 ho> Point is that BBSes I use for messaging are great substitute of USENET I
 ho> knew back in the 90s and early 00s. If I needed more IRC/chat formula
 ho> then I haven't found ideal place. I occasionally try some IRC servers to
 ho> experience ghost towns like you said. I use discord with few servers
 ho> related to retro computing, data hoarding, demo scene, dungeon crawler
 ho> (blobber) games and BBSes (Araknet, BBS World).
 ho> 
 ho> I find it fine but not ideal. BBS orientated discords are ghost towns.
 ho> But perhaps this is good. if we diverted our time connecting to terminal
 ho> and chatted on discord about BBSing instead... what's the point about
 ho> BBSes in regards to keep the discussions on the boards.

I also really agree :)

 ho> To discuss life (any topic) the USENET formula on BBS FTNs good enough.
 ho> I don't find it necessary to look after another platform for it.

It's like you're reading my mind :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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