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Hello Mark - 

TL>>> I remember BBS systems that did a pretty good job of
TL>>> insulating the caller from batch files, grep, awk and all
TL>>> the tekkie stuff....and I think that's what's needed to
TL>>> get new folks on-board.... 

CA>> I know I can't wait to return to the sysop as 'grand high
CA>> poobah' with all the posturing and insanity in control of
CA>> the hardware. ;-) 

CA>> No one is going to ever play that game again. It's over. 

ml> wanna bet? 

I don't gamble but I can tell you I know I'm not wrong this
time. 

ml> it's face, too, has changed... just like the internet and
ml> those who use it... 

Half my users on a leqacy DOS & W31 website are using DSL
connects. No one wants to drop back to dialup speeds after
using DSL for any length of time. 

ml> the thing now, is that the sysop isn't so visible...
ml> believe me... some web forums operators are just as
ml> good/bad as fidonet sysops have been known to be... i've
ml> watched some knock folk off their FTP servers just because
ml> they could at that moment in time... others i've seen, have
ml> put blocks and redirects on their web servers for certain
ml> users at certain times just because they could... its the
ml> same basic thing as ALT-H'ing a user (ALT-H == hang up)
ml> just because they feel like it... 

You mean like FIDO moderators? 

All of the "men who would be king" have become obsolete and
nothing that BBS software can do will restore them to their
'throne'. 

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