Hello Mike!

** On Monday 01.02.21 - 16:35, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

 >> Prior to all that, I experimented with operating a low key BBS
 >> for about 3 years using RBBS-PC. ...

 MP> There was an RBBS board that ran in Louisville for several
 MP> years in the 1980's/90's.  It was called Deckmann's
 MP> Exchange.  As a caller, I liked that software.

My introduction to RBBS-PC arrived on a disk featured in a  
magazine (or.. it was via mail-in request, I'm not sure)

But is so facinating to be the sysadmin of your own system of  
callers.  The mods and recompilations were fun.

 >> In the early times, some sysops were very protective of
 >> their user base.  During the dialup days, I would just try
 >> to call any system that didn't have a busy signal. One
 >> tended to be easier to connect to than many of the others -
 >> it was some weird 40 column wide thing and would only
 >> connect at 1200 bps.  I'd hang around and post messages..

 MP> Sounds like a Commodore board, from the description.  There
 MP> were a lot of 300 and 1200 baud Commodore boards in
 MP> Louisville for a time.  I never had any issues with other
 MP> sysops not wanting BBS ads posted, though, just as long as
 MP> I put them in the correct message areas.  :)

The bbs that essentially didn't want me to call anymore, was the  
only one that wasn't interested in hearing about the outside  
world. Now that I think about it, the sysop was probably running  
it as a personnal "letters-to-sysop" kind of system.  If people  
weren't interracting with the sysop and expounding the virtues  
of his 40char-wide Commadore board, then he wasn't interested in  
people learning about echomail, Compuserve, usenet, etc.. or  
anything else that would steer people away from him.



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