Re: Question
  By: Eric Oulashin to mark lewis on Fri May 01 2020 12:04:41


 ML>> in here are sysops... plus the huge fact that so many in non-US
 ML>> locations haven't had users in like two decades which is/was
 ML>> generally blamed on the cost of local phone calls so they pushed
 ML>> folks more and more to being point systems and thus operators and
 ML>> we come full circle on the "all posters are operators" fallacy...

 EO> Many BBSes these days are available on the internet, so you don't
 EO> have to make a phone call anymore.. ??

correct... this is one reason why there is a bit of a resurgence of BBSes in
non-US locations... the main thing i was pointing to is that when there were
some, the local call charges did not really allow users to call a BBS and spend
(eg) 60 minutes a day online reading messages, playing door games, and
transferring files... it was just too expensive so users in fidonet were pushed
to being point systems and pulling echomail from the BOSS node which was much
more affordable... granted, it didn't allow for door game playing but messages
were the big thing... not sure about how they handled uploading files to a
BBS... FREQing files is/was just natural as a point if the BOSS node allowed
it...


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