Re: BBSes
  By: Mike Roberts to Sean Dennis on Wed May 24 2006 10:20 am

 >   Re: BBSes
 >   By: Sean Dennis to Sam Alexander on Tue May 23 2006 11:53 pm
 > 
 >  > Basically, all WG boards I've seen (save for a single one I'm on) is a
 >  > pay-to-play board.  I mean, if I spent thousands on a BBS software and th
 >  > to have another machine to run doors, as well as having to buy special so
 >  > to write BBS modules (including Btrieve), I can see charging.
 > 
 > I hear ya Sean, but I think the problem is, Do many see paying! 8-)
 > 
 > Mike
 > 

True -- I guess if there was an awesome board with TONS of great content 
I'd see possibly paying.  The WG board I used to frequent (MetroBBS) in the 
mid-90s was wonderful, and it had TONS of people on it.  now'days though 
the BBS is still up, I've never seen another sole logged in.  Back then 
though you could shop online, get weather, sports, news, the works.  I'd 
still be game to pay for a system with all that, but none exist. 

I'm working on adding lots of that type of content to my board via PHP 
(running Sync on Linux), but it'll be some time.  

Take care --

Sam

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