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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Shawn Highfield
from: ROBERT WOLFE
date: 2006-04-13 13:20:26
subject: RE: making bbsing more user friendly

On Apr 10, 2006 10:46am, Shawn Highfield wrote to Matt Munson:

 SH>   Your thinking in the past man. :)  There are TONS of people logging
 SH>   into BBS's, their called Web forums, and blogs, wikis, and
 SH>   interactive web pages. All this new tech is still a BBS just with an
 SH>   updated interface.

One thing you should realize, Tiny , is that some BBS software these
days also have web-based interfaces as well as text-based ones (like the one I
run here, for example).

 SH>   The old style BBS simply can NOT make a come back.   I still run a
 SH>   board because I like to read fidonet, and to me as an old style user
 SH>   / sysop I like text mode.

Oh, I could not agree more! :)

Which reminds me, recently installed Citadel/UX on my *NIX box at home.  Works
VERY nicely to handle all of my net261.com domain emails ;)  Plus it also does
networking! :)

... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5a
* Origin: Buffalo Online | Net 261 HQ | Buffalo NY | net261.com (1:261/1)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786
@PATH: 261/1 153/757 106/1 2000 633/267

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