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echo: tg_support
to: Mark Hoover
from: Scott Adams
date: 2006-02-06 05:07:26
subject: Re: The BBSing hobby

-=> Quoting Mark Hoover to Scott Adams <=-

 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.

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

     Making money?...what a oddball concept is this? :)


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