Bill Cheek writes in a message to Scott Christensen
 BC> When you log on to a BBS, fer instance, and see the wel organized 
 BC> file and message areas....you THINK that was easy to set up? 
 BC> And free?
You're not telling me anything.  I've been running a BBS for about 10 years.  
However, I can't see a well-run, full service "web site" as being less 
time-intensive, probably more - just to keep it "fresh."
  
I run a BBS as a hobby.  I (still) enjoy the contact with other users of my 
favorite brand of computer and folks in the RF using population.  There are 
days I suspect that I should try some other hobby, but a small group of folks 
rely on my BBS for the same things I enjoy, and that makes it pretty hard to 
pull the switch.
  
 BC> I really could go on and on......but there is no need. BBS's 
 BC> are dying off by the droves. FidoNet has lost 25%-33% of its 
 BC> nodes from the peak in November, 1995. The Nodelist, now sized 
 BC> at just over 2.5-MB, shrinks at a weekly rate of 10-kB to 15-kB....and 
 BC> the rate is steepening, at that. 
  
Bill, if you're tired of running a BBS, just leave.  Don't let the door hit 
you in the fanny on the way out.    It sounds like you're looking for 
excuses for the decision that you already made.
 
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