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echo: bbs_carnival
to: T.J. Mcmillen
from: Scott Adams
date: 2006-04-16 18:36:24
subject: Re: making bbsing more user friendly

`07*** Quoting T.J. Mcmillen from a message to Scott Adams ***`07

SA>     In theory yes.  But the problem is getting it to the Masses.
SA>     If you can do something like AOL and send out CDs to every
SA>     home in the country the BBS world has a chance.  But otherwise
SA>     stores just don't support BBSes anymore with BBS lists and
SA>     programs like the above.  So that leaves the internet and
SA>     you gotta be on big sites to get the masses...

TM> They really didn't in the past either ... that was half the problem.

TM> -!- Renegade v04-12.6/Alpha r2-1

Maybe not your city but most cities did.  My city alone got over 5,000 new
bbses over a short term from the JPSA, paper and other shop listings.

This is just one example of many I can recall.


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