[telnet] Re: synchronet, was Re: List status
- From: "Justin Ekis" <jekis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <telnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:49:50 -0700
Hi.
Interesting point.
I don't expect that any given BBS web page would get that popular any time
soon, and if you're not able to run a web server because you're on dialup or
your isp won't allow it, that's fine. Just use the page for you're users and
promote your board in other ways. It would only take a dozen or so sysops
who were capable of taking lots of traffic to get the awareness of the
community up online. Even if most sysops don't use the web server like I
said earlier, some will and having about 10 more BBS pages in the search
engines will help.
By the way, more proof BBss aren't quite dead yet. There's still one site
that keeps track of BBS news, and there are quite a few recent items. Seems
that mystic BBS which is also free is reaching synchronet style levels of
popularity among new sysops. Check out the news page.
http://bbsnews.vbsoft.org
I don't like mystic myself, but some sware by it.
Back to the subject of synchronet dominating, maybe not for long. A quick
search through SourceForge.net turns up a hand full of new BBS platforms
under development which should be out over the next few years. Maybe the
days of several systems competing are coming again.
Revival, revolution and star BBS are all coming up just to name a few.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <baechler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <telnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:02 AM
Subject: [telnet] Re: synchronet, was Re: List status
>
> Hello. I just assumed it would be a module, but that is good that it is
> part of the main executable. I missed that detail before. I see your
> logic and agree. The only problem with that is that many sysops are not
on
> permanent connections so their sites are unreliable. Also, if thousands
of
> people visit, they get in trouble with their ISP and lose service
> altogether. A good example is Cox cable. They prohibit you from running
> web servers, but I think if it was low profile you could get away with
> it. However, if a thousand people visit all at once, they expect you to
> pay for that bandwidth or reserve the right to pull the plug without
> warning. If you have DSL or a very nice ISp, these are not issues and
your
> logic is correct.
>
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