-=> Eric Oulashin wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 EO> could be created. One thing I did like, though, about BBSs back in the
 EO> day is that they had a lot more of a local feel to them - Most of the
 EO> users were in the same geographic area.


POTS lines, flat-rate local calling and expensive LD calling drove local
flavor. I loved the fact that we could have BBS gettogethers, meet
someplace central to the board, and meet face-to-face. We'd meet 4x/year.


 EO> I know what you mean.  But even if a BBS has a web site, POP/SMTP, FTP,
 EO> etc., users aren't forced to use them.  Users can still use only the
 EO> telnet/dialup, and there, I think BBSs have the same feel they used to.


I'd like to preserve the telnet interface for people like me who started
out BBSing, but find some way to make a web interface with a similar look
and feel to "real" web BBSes like Vbulletin. That, IMO, is the way to get
new users into BBSing.

Synchronet has a web interface, but it appears to be a web-ified BBS front
end. I'm talking about a native-feeling web interface that would be
comfortable to an end-user who's never used a BBS but has posted on web
bulletin boards before.


--kW


    kurt weiske       |  kweiske at realitycheckbbs dot org
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