On Tuesday, December 5th, 1995 - Terry Russell wrote:
 
 > as I've said, most of the reasons I've heard to shut out low bps rates
 > are not compelling, they're just excuses made by pig headed people.
TR>  >
TR> Well I am sorry you feel this way, and if I really felt that there 
 
I'm not saying YOU are pig-headed.  I'm saying that most of the sysops
giving the excuses are.  Your system is an exception because it is
acting as much as router as a BBS.
 
TR> were 1000s of people with 300 baud modems that "could not afford" a 
TR> 15.00 2400 or a 35.00 used 14.400 I would understand, however I don't 
 
I do think so.  In fact, I know its true.  There are 1000s of people in
my home state who can't afford any additional expenditures or a computer 
much less a faster modem and an interface.  Like it or not, the Atari
8-bits are falling into the hands of some very impoverished people.  The 
300 baud modems are still out there, floating around.  And until the
government confiscates them and dumps 'em in a landfill, people are
still going to be using them.  Whether you come into contact with these
people or not is irrelevant, they are out there.  I guess this is one
for Ripley's Believe It Or Not!  :-)
 
TR> Commodore 64 with an external 300 baud hayes. He told me the other 
TR> day that he does not want to go to the expence of buying his friend's 
TR> used 9600 baud Hayes for 25.00 because he only uses the modem once in 
TR> awhile. At the same time he asked me if I knew any BBS boards that 
TR> still supported 300 in this area????? To me that is "pig headed".
 
I agree, it is pretty pig headed.  He won't get 9600 through his
interface (the cheapy C64 interfaces max out at 2400).  Here's a trick
you can do: Lend him a 2400 bps modem for a few weeks, then demand it
back.  I guarantee he won't want to go back, and will plunk down the
cash for a faster modem.  ;-)
 
TR> TradeWars i'll agree with you on, I win most tradewar games I play 
 
How do you win?
 
TR> because I spend alot of time playing and using stratagy, in a 20 
 
So, as sysop you give yourself more time to play than your users?  Round 
here, that's called cheatin'!!!
:->
 
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