From: mroblivious1bmf@eob-bbs.com.remove-ccu-this   
      
     To: Michael J. Ryan (tracker1)   
   .,: This is something about Re: Please Help me setup my BBS 95% done!!!,   
    Michael J. Ryan (tracker1) said it to alt.bbs.renegade on Wed Apr 09 2008   
   05:46 am   
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    > On 04/05/2008 10:55 PM, FTB wrote:   
    > > own message network. Much of the same troll posts like the one above   
    > > by you that just drove any shot at all of synchronet making a comeback   
    > > right out the ol mail tosser.   
      
    > Synchronet is currently the most popular bbs software out there, bar none...   
    > nothing is as widely used...   
      
      
      
   Well, i think the guy got the wrong idea about me. also, no one person is   
   responsible for anything bad happening to bbsing. we're all at fault :D   
      
   that being said, in all my years of bbsing i have never seen anybody attacked   
   while asking for help. not once.   
      
   there have been people who have wanted others to do everything for them, and   
   when their laziness came to light after time, yes they were chewed out [and   
   rightly so].   
      
   There are people out there that get extremely insulted when you tell them to   
   read the documentation while at the same time doing something for the first   
   time. i just cant understand this, because how i learned was all hands on,   
   and when i hit a problem, i'd do a quick search in the docs to move on.   
   It seems a lot smarter than asking one question in a forum/msg base and   
   sitting for a day waiting for a replies that may or not be correct ones.   
      
   To touch on why bbses have failed, i have always held the same opinion over   
   the years:   
      
   BBSes have never been mainstream because the bbs software developers and   
   operators of the software are at fault.  bbses have never had the approach   
   where they would intergrate seamlessly with the internet, and that is why we   
   fail.  No way in hell would we ever draw in a decent amount of people who   
   never knew about bbsing.   
   A web interface isnt good enough, in my opinion. all they see is a shabby   
   halfassed forum clone, and they move on.   
      
   So we either change and progress, or we beat a dead horse until all that is   
   left is a handful. seems like the latter is the course we have been taking.   
      
   maybe bbses dont deserve to continue?   
      
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