Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : paulie420
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Wed Jul 12 2023 01:45 am

On 21 Jun 23  18:00:32 paulie420 wrote...

PP> The main part of that is joining the BBS community. Whether a user
PP> never left and has always been a part of the BBSing community, fsxNet
PP> and FidoNet - or a new BBS user joins and starts communicating here
PP> (fsxNet) and the other networked parts of BBSing - MRC, the Commodore
PP> BBSes if yer into C= - the Atari BBSes if yer into Atari computers,
PP> etc etc etc...
PP> 
PP> Once I met all the regulars and hung out for long enough that they
PP> knew I wasn't just flying thru - I started to get more and more
PP> support. Both callers, ANSI art and etc.

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

Calling other BBSs is also fairly important, especially in the Atari
community.  We've had so many people waste our time asking for help
setting things up and then just trying it for a short time and quitting,
we don't even really help anymore unless we see the person around the
BBS's.

A lot of them claim they want to only call if they're using retro
hardware, but it's at a point now where we spend weeks helping them get
set up and they call once or twice... so now it's kind of expected that
if you can't even use SyncTerm or something to "try before you buy" then
we just don't have any time to help.

That's doubly true if someone wants help setting up a BBS.

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