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-=> Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 NA> This is true.. If you bought either MBBS or TBBS it was an investment
 NA> that you wanted recouped. I never once saw a totally "free" one of
 NA> those systems until much later, when the novelty wore off.

If I recall, there were some other paid packages - Searchlight, Wildcat
and others were expensive (to me), but not in the range of the
multi-line BBSes. Those seemed more geared to the well-off sysop rather
than the sysop looking to run a business off of his/her BBS.



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