JD>> You will see the bbs come back. When the unlimited internet is gone
 JD>> and the phone company gets the per minute charges in place the bbs
 JD>> will come back....
 TM> First, what makes you think unlimited Internet will go away?
 TM> And second, how on earth would per-minute phone charges HELP
 TM> the plight of the BBS?
because the per-minute charges would be levied on internet connections not 
bbs'... the callers would "rebel" against the charges and so not call/connect 
to the internet... instead they would (most likely) (re)start calling the bbs 
systems...
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