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  To: Sean Dennis
  Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
  By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Sun Apr 09 2023 08:18 pm

 > -=> Jas Hud wrote to Dennis Scott <=-
 >
 >  JH> not only can we not get people to pay for subscriptions for our bbses,
 >  JH> over the years i have seen systems that were not successful in doing
 >  JH> cash prizes and other gifts to get users to call.
 >
 > Like how nearly every MBBS system in the 90s charged a subscription because
 > the software was so expensive?
 >

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

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.
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