-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 AA> I don't even see many sysops trying to promote *other* boards.

 MK> There are none here but I suppose we could venture beyond the local
 MK> scene. Definetly doable if we think global instead of purely local.

One of my thoughts on that  was that if you have one guy talking about a 
BBS to another fellow that's never heard of one, and wants to try it, so he
does a search 
on Google, winds up telnetting to a synchronet board for instance. The 
SBBS site has a synchronet BBS list, and sbbs has a synchronet list, which 
can only be run on an SBBS, and the logoff screen by default shows the url 
for the sbbs list. Okay, sbbs is a fine bbs package, and some people think 
wwiv is the greatest, others think wildcat is the greatest, mystic is the 
greatest, renegade is the greatest, etc, etc. It goes again to show how 
it's a matter of personal preference, and what works for one person 
doesn't work for another, and what one person likes another doesn't. The 
person mentioned above who's new to BBS'ing doesn't really have an idea 
that there are different boards with different interfaces. For instance, 
they sbbs message system to me is not as good as Wildcat. And I'm sure 
there are people who prefer the sbbs message system *over* wilcat. Point 
being, this new person has only been exposed to SBBS and awareness that 
SBBS isn't the *only* bbs software running. If they dial into SBBS and 
find that's it not that user-friendly, they decide that they tried 
"BBS'ing" but didn't like it. Well, again, I'm speculating. :) Then I ask 
myself, why do I even care? Will I be BBS'ing a year enough to matter to 
me? I don't know. This is just what I'm writing *now.* You obviously 
wanted to discuss it with me, so I'm discussing it. :) I'm not a sysop, 
nor do I plan to be, so do my opinions even matter? :)
 
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