Re: Re: bbsing   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon May 04 2015 16:59:24   
      
    NB> Rochester always has seemed to have a good sense of community, on many   
    NB> levels... bbsing being only one of them...  back in the day, with a   
    NB> number of good bbses to choose from, there wasn't much rivalry (and what   
    NB> there was was rather good-natured at that) and there was a lot of   
    NB> cooperation... There's less of that now locally on the bbs scene, but   
    NB> with telnet and all, the community just widened out globally..  :)   
      
     I guess other than the cult that my parents raised me in I've never really   
   been any member of an organization that had much of a sense of community.    
   Barring the military, of course; not that that community was one that I really   
   had a lot I wanted to identify with (though it was always nice to know that you   
   had hundreds of thousands of people that had your back).  So the BBS community   
   was very important to me.  Maybe some day I'll be able to bring my son to the   
   discussions here, as well.  ;)  Just to bring it full circle and back around to   
   the echo topic again.  ;)   
      
    NB> It's good to find good lessons in the bad things of the past... :)  And   
    NB> then to let the demons loose, to not torment you any more... :)   
      
     As I've said before that's one of the things that I'm pretty bad at.  Though   
   I do notice it getting better every day with meditation.  Of course I say that   
   on a day where I realize I've missed my meditation for two days in a row now.    
   I'm being a bad buddhist.  :)   
      
    NB> It didn't bother me... I just figured his reasoning was, any female on   
    NB> the scene must be young, "old ladies" wouldn't be interested...   And   
    NB> of course, there's no visual clues as to age...  :)   
      
     It's cool that you're okay with it.  I've seen other women who have been a   
   little irate about it, at times.  Heh.  There does certainly tend to be an   
   early male (or maybe not gender specific) characteristic for believing that any   
   female that you can't see must be near the same age...  At least I remember   
   that a bit, myself.  Naivety, I suppose.  Combined with a little egocentrism   
   that seems pretty all-pervasive in either humanity or non-tribal culture,   
   perhaps.   
      
    NB> I'd tend to go along with you on that.  And I suspect that some of that   
    NB> lack of real community is what encourages the somewhat resurgance of the   
    NB> bbs scene lately...  :)   
      
     I guess I've only been around for a few years, so I don't know how much of   
   what is going on is uptick and how much are the common ins and outs since the   
   BBSen faded from common usage.  I certainly hope that it's swinging up again;   
   it'd be great to have a little more infusion around here.  Not that the current   
   company is lacking anything; it's always nice to have some of those gah-tam   
   kids around, though.  *grin*   
      
    NB> [grinning]  I suppose there's a place for that...   I have to agree   
    NB> that what exists nowadays in social media is generally a poor substitute   
    NB> for real interaction.  I'm sure there are some pockets of it, but the   
    NB> medium doesn't really encourage it... it tends to be pretty impersonal..   
      
     Yeah.  It can be a lifesaver when there's a fairly complete lack of anything   
   else, but if there's anything better, it's a damn poor substitute.  I think   
   things started getting really poor when the php BBSes started coming around.    
   Everybody I knew from back in the BBS days got into them for a bit, but they   
   never really had the same community.  It was too...  commercial looking, maybe?   
   I don't know for sure what it was; that, and perhaps the point and clicking   
   crowd of kids who weren't there for anything except flaming and rampant   
   douchebaggery.  Which is to be expected, of course, but at least on the   
   text-based BBSing forums there was a little bit of a higher bar to them getting   
   there in the first place.  Point & click just made it too easy, IMO.   
      
    DAG>> iron out these last 3 bugs that are keeping me from putting it up   
    DAG>> public.   
    NB> I'm sure it IS a learning curve...  :)  Sounds like you'll manage ok   
    NB> with it though...  :)   
      
     Yeah.  I've fallen out of the habit of coding on it every day now, though.    
   I've got to get back with that pretty soon here.  It's good to take a pause   
   every now and then so that I forget what I _THINK_ the code does and have to   
   start looking at what it ACTUALLY does.  That difference can be really   
   important.  Kind of like setting a manuscript aside for a few months before you   
   edit it so that you're not reading what you thought you put down, you're   
   reading what's actually on the page.  I'm gonna try to give it a shot in awhile   
   here today after I get a workout done (yay working shoulder!).  Motivation was   
   lacking this morning, but I think if I get the blood flowing a little bit   
   better things will work out here.  ;)   
     Best wishes.   
      
     -D   
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