Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

well when i was writing that i'm talking about the telnet age, not
dialup age.

I knew of several MBBS systems that supported both POTS and telnet in the
90s.

during the dialup years, i did subscribe to some of those and it was because they provided internet access when it was crummy in my area.

My friend started a dialup ISP in the 90s and eventully sold it to Earthlink for a tidy profit.

- Sean

... Press <Ctrl-Alt-Del> now to access the pirate software.
--- MMail/FreeBSD
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Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data files linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.

To me that is not anything individulistic but more of a hivemind.

- Sean

... Dragons make great pets. Just put down LOTS of newspaper.
--- MMail/FreeBSD
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Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Because it was messages, chat, door games, files, and the potential for much more - all done in a completely different way than the usual FTN, store and forward means.

You could just do that with a good CMS and not bother with a BBS, IMNSHO.

-- Sean


... Why does pizza get to your house faster than the police?
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Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Sean Dennis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

What Jaron Lanier was talking about was a micropayment system where you could compensate content on the web, in payments of fraction of cents
to sub-dollar amounts on a one-time basis to content creators in an unstructured way - imagine seeing a relevant post on Linkedin and
having the like button transfer 10 cents to the author. readers forward and share the content. Scale takes care of the rest.

You'd die in bank processing fees alone. I mean, you could use Paypal for that; why reinvent the wheel? Too many new sysops don't understand that
things work the way they do for many reasons. Like I said, every five
years or so, all of this "BBS newthink" crops up and it disappears just as
fast as it appears.

What I'd like is people to actually produce proof-of-concept instead of talk but as usual, nothing happens...

For me, getting everything working on FreeBSD was adventure enough.

-- Sean

... Not tonight, dear. I have a modem.
--- MMail/FreeBSD
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Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Where running a BBS became more lucrative was at the quarterly (or more often) get-togethers. Many pints of beer and coffee were bought for me which meant more than the subscriptions.

That I agree with. When I was stationed at Fort Hood from '96-'98, BBSes
were still quite popular and the weekly regional BBS meetup was so big we'd take over an entire restaurant. Those were indeed halcyon days.

-- Sean

... Are tired Army clothes called fatigues?
--- MMail/FreeBSD
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To: Sean Dennis
Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 12 2023 06:26 pm

Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

well when i was writing that i'm talking about the telnet age, not dialup age.

I knew of several MBBS systems that supported both POTS and telnet in the 90s.

yeah i did too. i was on metro gameport and the other bbses they owned.
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To: Sean Dennis
Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 12 2023 06:28 pm

Jas Hud wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

he used a bad example. what it was, was the boards all had their data files linked. so same doorgames, msg areas, user files, etc.

To me that is not anything individulistic but more of a hivemind.

well it's something that wasn't very well thought out.
why have all these bbses when the datafiles are all linked?
why not have one?

i'm sure it started as 'hey we can get more users in our doorgames and people don't have to setup msg echos'.
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Sean Dennis wrote to Jas Hud <=-

My friend started a dialup ISP in the 90s and eventully sold it to Earthlink for a tidy profit.

That would have been a good market to sell in -- the large ISPs were
clamoring for local points-of-premise in the late 90s when dial-up was
king.



... Into the impossible
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