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Skriven 2011-08-24 08:59:54 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 21944 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Odd isnt it.
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Richard Webb wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday August 23 2011 at 16:34:

RB>> Ah, in that case you probably still run a BBS. I gave mine up for
RB>> lack of traffic many years ago. One call every ten months just wasn't
RB>> enough to justify the effort ;-)

ml>> what effort? once the thing is set up and configured, what else is
ml>> there to be done?

It was just too much ballast and not enough demand.

RW> WAs thinking the same thing Bob.

RW> IT's intended to eventually expand to be telnet available, etc.  just
RW> ain't feasible right now.  I use it, my lady might, if she found
RW> anything really of interest to her besides email via gateway right
RW> now.

The difference might be that points were never really widespread in Z1, whereas
they were and still are normal in Z2. If anyone wants to use my system, I can
set up a point for them and then everything runs automatically, without any
interference by me.

We had BBS systems in Z2 back in the days where there was practically nothing
except for analog connections, but they died out gradually as the Internet came
into use. Anyone who wants to read and write in fido echos gets a point, no
problem. Just a different approach, amounts to the same, I guess.

As for Telnet and the like, that never really got started here, since most
people on this side of the ocean would just set up an Internet forum - in R24,
nearly everyone in fido has DSL and generally a flat rate Internet connection
as well, so there's nothing preventing direct "chats" and the like. Remember,
Europe is pretty crowded together and that makes it rather easy to set up a
dense communication system. Compare that with what my cousin in Las Vegas, NM
has, who is really off the beaten track and in a low population density area.
He has a rough go of things and can consider himself lucky to get even a slow
DSL connection (1 MBit/s).

Just different circumstances.

Cheers, Bob

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