Hi NIck,

On Thu 2037-Apr-16 09:30, Nick Andre (1:229/426.1) wrote to PETER COGGON:

> A BBS was a place to find friends
> A BBS was a place to find information and help
> A BBS was like visiting someone at home from the comfort
> of your home.
> We held weekly "chew n chokes"  weekly events of many
> things given by many users that made it popular.
AGreed.  Made lots of good friends via the bbs and fidonet,
and even some through internet newsgroups.

NA> I hosted sortof the same thing here in 1995, a small gathering of
NA> loyal users to my BBS. That was a blast.
NA>  
NA> Try suggesting the same thing in the Internet-age today and people
NA> look at you very strangely.
YEp, your users might be anywhere, not local on a dial-up
modem connection as much.

IN central Iowa the local fidonet group had a meeting about
every three months.  THOse were fun.  A friend of mine used
to have a big picnic for the regulars on his bbs.  THose
were even more funh because many of his users were
musicians.  PLenty of good entertainment .

WHen I starrted hubbing fidonet in southeastern Iowa we used to set up
seminars on how to use your ocmputer and modem at
the public library.  All the local fido sysops cooperated on putting this on.

MIne wasn't the most popular of the local boards, but that
was in many ways by design as I was doing the hub work.

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+