Re: On The Twit List
  By: Nightfox to KK4QBN on Mon Sep 18 2017 09:35:11

 Ni> That sounds pretty cool. I never had a big BBS setup, just one line, and
 Ni> my BBS was free (I got plenty of callers but never really felt like I
 Ni> could justify charging a subscription for it). I eventually did set up
 Ni> DESQView so I could try running a separate local node so I could log in
 Ni> locally while someone was on my BBS though, and it was cool to at least
 Ni> learn how a multi-node BBS setup worked in DOS, even though I only had one
 Ni> BBS phone line. 

I feel the same, I had regular accounts that game 30 minutes daily free, with
certial perks.

There were actually 3 different levels with the highest being I believe 7.50 a
month for commercial users who advertised on our local bulletin areas, and also
had access to everything I offered,  and a power user lever at 5 bucks a month
that had access to everything but could not use it commercialy.. it pretty much
just paid the bills and paid for upgrades, etc.. never was really a business
for me, always a hobby.. we did get into running the webmail servers for
osborne internet and run a few commercial websites for a while after the
internet killed the bbs scene. made more money off selling the domain names.

 Ni> The internet did seem like a death blow to BBSes, which was the main
 Ni> reason I took my original BBS down in 2000. It wasn't getting many callers
 Ni> anymore, and at the time I figured probably nobody would want to call a
 Ni> BBS anymore now that the internet was widely available. I had heard of
 Ni> telnet BBSes, but for a while I didn't think anyone would want to use a
 Ni> telnet BBS when they have internet access. But later (2007) I found that
 Ni> telnet BBSes still existed and people do call them, so I decided to start
 Ni> running a BBS again. It might not be quite the same as it used to be, but

Yeah, I had a bit of a hiatus from the BBS scene before putting one back up
somewhere around early 2002 after 911 and lasted another 7 years or so.

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Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
KK4QBN BBS

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