Hakan Koseoglu wrote in a message to Alex Vasauskas:

 HK> I think unfortunately there won't be Maximus/Linux.

Considering the declining interest in bbses, I am afraid that
you are right.

 HK> In Ankara, number of running BBSs are dropping all the time,
 HK> Maximus or not. Most of the survivers are Maximus running boards
 HK> but they are all desperate and can't compete with Internet.

I see it too.  In fact, I think that I have the only open bbs,
at least one connected to Fidonet, in Alaska.  There is only
one regular user, and one or two other drop in occasionally.  But,
since I have the extra phone line for my fidonet and internet
connections, I keep the bbs open FWIW.  It seems to me, but
apparently to no one else, that an electronic bulletin board where
local people can talk to each other about local things is very
desirable notwithstanding the internet.

 HK> Sysops
 HK> here are in a black mood, no-one wants its system usage around
 HK> 20-30 users.

Your sysops sound like a pessimistic lot  ;-)   That many users here
would call for celebration. 

 HK>  Only Die-Hard's are still struggling. I myself gave up
 HK> and closed my board two years ago. :( It was one of the hard and
 HK> sad choices I've ever made. I am co-sysoping the biggest BBS in
 HK> Turkey now but I really starting to wonder if it does worth or not.

Whether it is "worth it" depends on why you do it.  For me, I like
fidonet echos much better than the internet newsgroups I have read.
So long as I have this openly available to others maybe some will
discover this too.  I look at it as maintaining an open option
for others locally to visit and share my interests.  I also appreciate
how the Maximus software has enabled me to do so.

What do you see as the difference between running a bbs as opposed
to replacing it with a web page?  Maybe there is a way to use the
internet to revive bbses?
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