Subj : Re: In the future..
To   : Dan Richter
From : Jay Harris
Date : Sun Jun 07 2020 03:29 pm

On 07 Jun 2020, Dan Richter said the following...
 
 DR> Oh, yes, I remember users... ;)

The only users I seem to have attracted at the moment are ZC's verifying
I have a working system other sysops checking out newbie.

 DR> You're right. For us, there is a passion involved with getting
 DR> everything set up to work properly, and change things to make them
 DR> different from others. Someone just looking at the technology we are
 DR> using, won't have that same passion. Is there a way to attract new users
 DR> into this hobby?

Back when I ran a BBS in high school I used to hand out 3.5" floppys with a
HyperTerm file configured to connect to my board.  I've been considering
putting up an ad on Kijiji or something to try and attract the "normals" to
my board.

Jay

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