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> Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to communicate vs instant
> communications. Having to wait for messages and replies (even if just a local
> message board), could be a new fad? I need an iOS QWK Reader ...

Maybe.  Back when I was younger, and before dial-up BBSes had took off, the
cable system in Owensboro, KY, had a channel that was called the bulletin
board.  Normally, if you turned it on, it gave the time, temperature, wind
speed and direction, etc., on one screen.  If there was something going on,
that screen would be replaced, IIRC, with a the bulletin.

A local AM station played in the background.

This was even before the Weather Channel so, as a youngster, I thought that
channel was really neat.  :)

When I first started calling BBSes, there were local "communities" that had
their own and that did use them for communicating to members, but these
were more likely to be a club (like the local Astronomical Society) or
other oranization (like the local free public library system).  State
government also had one, but it was an in-state long-distance call to me at
the time & I don't remember now what kind of bulletin info they may have
posted.

As for an iOS QWK reader, you might try asking in one of the more technical
echos, or on FSX or TQN networks, if you have access to those.  In past
there have been discussions about reading BBS messages on a phone,
including IIRC some about running a point system.

Mike

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