Subj : qwk and/or points
To   : mark lewis
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Apr 04 2019 10:26 pm

Hello mark!

** 04.04.19 - 20:01, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

ml>  On 2019 Apr 04 18:54:00, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

AA>> I could never quite understand why points never seemed to catch the
AA>> imagination of message/echomail users in NA.

ml> mostly because of no cost local calls... why be a point when you can
ml> connect to your favorite BBS to read/write messages online as well as
ml> uploading/downloading files and playing some door games... especially when
ml> a lot of systems gave users 60 minutes per day or more and were also able
ml> to offer multiple nodes so more than one user could be online at a time...

Ya..  there is the "game" part of it to keep users online for a while.

But my audience was interested in inexpensive email (which I provided by a  
gateway) primarily.  Then, I introduced echomail, and most users loved it.


ml> users genreally didn't have a problem installing an offline mail package
ml> since it was one program... trying to do the same for the piece-part point
ml> systems available at the time was more problematic... might as well set up
ml> a BBS with a tosser and mailer...

I don't recall any piece-part issues with Frontdoor/APX.  It seemed to be  
an all-in-one, if I remember correctly, as that is what I preconfigured on  
diskette.

People loved the quick dialup, delivering and getting things done in a few  
seconds.  I rarely had complaints about busy signals.  The phone would  
receive many calls one after another.  I had 2 lines at first for about a  
year, and then added 2 more.

But the blight of AOL diskettes/CDs started showing up in everyone's mail  
boxes, and like the Pied Piper, lured the people away to the "innernet"  
(as they pronounced here).

I cut back my 4 lines to 2, the phone calls would sometimes be spread out  
between days, and then one day my hdd crashed.  :(







Regards,
  ../|ug

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