Winston Smith wrote in a message to Thom Lacosta:

TL> In all honesty, while the BBBS works, I think it is a terrible
TL> way to get internet users introduced to Fidonet.  The interface
TL> is kludgy, the commands are cumbersome, etc.

 WS> BBBS isn't so bad....  It has EMacs for an editor.

But, I suspect the average non-tekkie user knows little about/cares less about Emacs.

 WS> you are one of the FidoNET HomePages).  You can pull out network
 WS> tables with a single "grep", A LA -- BR 1:101 -- for example.

More tekkie stuff

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


cya,
thom
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