Thanks, Stu, for your enlightening comments.
SG>>     I don't think this is the crux of the matter.
After reading everything you said twice, especially this part, I am
rapidly concluding that the article I read gave a very incomplete
explanation.
SG>>As you can see... it wasn't just the Internet that caused problems.
SG>>Harddrive space is no longer an issue.
SG>>I can remember when almost all businesses had a BBS.  Now they have
SG>>turned to Web Pages.   Why maintain both?
This makes a *lot* more sense than what the article postulated.
SG>>Like anything.. you have to provide a service that folks want.  BBS's
SG>>that specialize or have a specific focus will do better. The OS/2 Sharewa
SG>>BBS is still getting more calls than it can handle.
That's what a friend in another echo said.  See my note to Sam Ewalt
about her specialty board.
SG>>Fidonet offers something the Internet does not have.  MODERATED echoma
SG>>areas.
And wonderful they are to have.  The only newsgroup I ever read is
comp.os.geos for that reason, and I get upset with it and stop for a
while and then go back for a while as I have said here before.
SG>>It is unfortuneate that Fidonet does not get any publicity.
Well it certainly did in Houston, Texas, this past Sunday.  The article
started on the first page, took most of an inside page, and carried
over to a piece of a third page in the business section.  Then there
was almost a *full* page listing of all the present BBS boards (250 or
so) in the area in column format as follows: system name, phone number,
bps, lines, and description of services.  Talk about impressive!  I bet
a lot of those boards are getting bunches of new user calls this week.
So what are you going to do about yours as far as carrying GEOS stuff
is concerned?  If no one is contributing files to the area and few
people are downloading from that area, then you are devoting a lot of
hard drive space to it that you could use for something else, right?
                                                Anne Page
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