SA> -=> Quoting Mark Hoover to MICHEL SAMSON <=-

SA> MS>     Who knows:  fix it (or renew it) and the BBSers might stop
SA> MS>quiting!

SA> MH> Except that you can't fix the biggest problem out there.  The
SA> MH> new breed  of computer users.  Most if not all of the new people
SA> MH> getting computers  today believe that the only thing out there
SA> MH> on the internet is the web  and email.

SA>        Its like pushing rocks uphill.  corporations care less
SA>        about bbses.  There might be one computer shop in
SA>        500 that know of the BBS world and MAY tell about it.
SA>        But they aren't dumb.  They'lls eel their high speed
SA>        modems and software for the 'net.  Not many shops
SA>        are willing ot help us like they did back in the '80s
SA>        when they published bbs lists and such.

Companies exist to make money and these days money is in the high speed 
stuff cause that's what TV is telling the masses....:(

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