TS> I have a rather eserteric question, which I hope is not 'off
 TS> topic' at least not too far.
 TS> Why are so many BBS operators so afraid of the internet?
I don't think it's a fear, cause most sysops I know also use the internet.
Fidonet  as a whole, (at least as far as Zone 1 goes), has gone down 
drastically. A lot of bbses have gone to the wayside either because users 
just quit calling and went to the internet instead or the sysop decided 
running a bbs wasn't worth what expenditures and hassles (s)he was having 
with the bbs.
There *are* several bbses available by telnet on the internet.
 TS> Some fidonet Sysops are even more afraid then many others.
I think it's more anxiety than a fear because fewer people are using bbses 
these days (as far as what is seen locally and what I read from other 
sops).
 TS> I find that sence I got an internet account I rarely call 'out
 TS> of town' bbses but I call thoes local to me about as much as
 TS> I always have.  I know, as my cousin is a sysop/hub in
 TS> Fidonet, that to some extent fidonet and the Internet seem to
 TS> have some rivalry.  But for the most part they seem to
 TS> compliment each other.
I figure fidonet and internet are two different entities, each one having
something different to offer.   I can easily get a lot of files, do irc or 
other
 chatting, send email to other people, buy stuff on the internet... but as a
whole, the comraderie (sp?) of those in fidonet vs those in usergroups
 is a lot closer (IMO).  I've met a bunch of folks (even in person) in
 Fidonet but not so from the internet (not just because of geographical
circumstances, because some of the people I have met in fidonet are
from Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, and other parts of the country.
Nancy     nanwood@juno.com  nanwood@hotmail.com
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