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On 18 Feb 24  22:16:12, Michael Selhof said the following to All:

MS> The deeper meaning of this forum are not the callers. Apart from that,
MS> behavior 
MS> varies from country to country. This is actually about us sysop's. The aim 
MS> the forum is to bring many Sysop's together at one table in order to create
MS> much dialogue as possible. To bring together at one point the knowledge tha
MS> is actually distributed across many networks. It is important to start from

I'm game for really any type of conversation about BBS'ing.... but.... having 
been around for a long time, I notice the following patterns.

- Linux Linux Linux. An obscene amount of Linux, to the point of a few who
felt the need to shove it down my throat when opportunity arose. Yes I know
theres a tinkering aspect of Linux. Its fun to mess around with but I'm the 
type of Sysop who made an XP system work and largely left it alone. I simply 
do not have interest in the tech-aspect that much anymore so that excludes me 
from at least 90% of most conversation.

- Every few years or so a Sysop makes noise with the "Next Best Thing" which
when that does not catch on, that Sysop and conversation vanishes.

- Sysops who have really good intentions and well-meaning, who up and vanish,
in some cases the ZC of a popular Othernet which really had the good Sysop
convo you mention.... left many Sysops "hanging" with a bad aftertaste.

But its fun to run a board and I cannot imagine my tech-life without it.

Atreyu

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
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