-=> Dennis Scott wrote to Rob Swindell <=-

 DS> No, not at all. What if each BBS all over the world was connected
 DS> in real time in a distributed fashion. Think data center where
 DS> there are many computers sharing a load, like Twitter and/or
 DS> Facebook. On this new style BBS system, there could be everything
 DS> just like it is now but there also could be a section similiar to
 DS> Facebook Marketplace that charges customers a tiny fee per
 DS> completed transaction or charges the seller a small fee to post
 DS> the item. That fee would be distributed mainly to the BBS that
 DS> hosted the transaction but a small part of it goes to the
 DS> developer (Rob) for development costs. Say a user connects into
 DS> the system, the system detects his/her physical location and
 DS> instantly routes the "call" to the most local BBS. The user can
 DS> do all the things that the user normally does but there is at
 DS> least one new thing and that is the Marketplace.

 DS> Now you know why I was asking about dynamic nodes. To work, this
 DS> system would need to be able to adapt to the load.

 DS> This new BBS system would not affect the currect BBS system at
 DS> all. All of the BBSs running on old equipment would continue as
 DS> normal but if a Sysop decides to be part of the new BBS system,
 DS> they could, but there would some specific hardware and software
 DS> requirements.

So, you're advocating for us all to be "assimilated by the Borg"...

That's a hard "I'll pass" from me.



... Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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