-=> On 11-25-19  10:10,  Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-
 -=> spoke to Terry Roati about IC and 3 symbols in msg <=-

 MVDV> If you say so. But if there are indeed a "lot" of sysops running a BBS
 MVDV> with  users, there must be an even greater "lot" of users. Where 
 MVDV> are they? I don't carry all the echos, but I don't see a 
 MVDV> "lot" of users.

Perhaps that is because your main focus is in the echos that have a
technical and/or sysop point of view.  That's ok, but there are echos
which have users who are not sysops.  Those echos tend to be ones
not orientated to sysop type of interest.

 MVDV> In the last couple of years, I have only
 MVDV> seen two. Tim Richardson and Lee Lofaso. Only the first 
 MVDV> writes via a "real" BBS, the latter writes via the system
 MVDV> of a sysop that grants access via JamNNTP. For the sake of 
 MVDV> argument I will count that too as a "BBS".

As you should.  It is a BBS with a different method of access.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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