Thom LaCosta (1:261/1352) wrote to Steven Horn at 18:32 on 17 Apr 2003:

 TL> Perhaps...every experiment with that mode has been a miserable
 TL> failure...and I believe it's due to lack of promotion, awareness
 TL> and the fact that many new "modem" users are internet based.

I was thinking of the Web/Telnet based BBS.  I agree that the dial=in BBS
is about as alive as the dodo.

 TL> With that in mind, I put up a web/telnet based BBS...which hasn't
 TL> got much action...and that's primarily due to lack of promotion.

It's obviously time to ADVERTISE.:-)

 TL> As an aside...I use FNOS to conmnect the system here to one of my
 TL> ISPs to transfer echomail via FTP.  I had a support oriented
 TL> question...and found that no one at the ISP has a comfortable grasp
 TL> of DOS, let alone DOS based applications.

When I used FNOS regularly from 1994 to 1998, I was calling in to my ISP
with Trumpet Winsock or Microsoft's own Windows socket so I rarely had a
connection problem but the lack of knowledge about DOS by the support staff
does not surprise me.  I suspect that I know a great deal less than I did a
decade ago.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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