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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sean Dennis
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2023-04-10 06:58:00
subject: Re: BBS Software Timeout

-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 KW>  Sysops freaked out about sharing user info, but I liked the
 KW>  telegram-like feel of it. Messaging had gone from multiple day
 KW>  round-trips with dial-up star/backbone systems to real-time.

 SD> Why not just use Telegram and leave the middleman out of it?

Because it was messages, chat, door games, files, and the potential for
much more - all done in a completely different way than the usual FTN,
store and forward means.



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