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    MJ> I tend to think of Net2BBS as NetSerial Lite.   
      
    CL> It's not, they are two compleatly different programs.   
      
   It would be better if the two were merged.   
       
    CL> If you have 256 nodes set up in your BBS config, they should show up   
    CL> as just "offline" or "Waiting For Call". Honestly in todays bbs world,   
    CL> why  would you want 256 nodes. If a caller hit "Whos Online", and has   
      
   Because it is endearing and cute.   
      
    CL> to  scroll through 12 pages of "waiting for calls", he/she is lible to    
    CL> disconnect and move on. I would love to have all my nodes busy with    
      
   People would scroll until the end out of curiosity.   
      
    CL> callers, but the fact is, that's not gonna happen these days. I have   
    CL> 15  nodes available, 5 for each one of my systems, and It's a good day   
    CL> if 2  nodes are busy at the same time by legit callers. Let's face it,   
    CL> most of todays callers are other sysops in the hobby. I've been in this   
    CL> hobby  since the early 90's, and I've seen the day when I had ten   
    CL> callers on at one time. I used to run a paid system, with 10 incomming   
    CL> phone lines,  and if felt good making that money, but I always put it   
      
   It sounds like you have a marketing and value proposition problem. Maybe if   
   you held cash prize competitions you could get 100 simultaneous online   
   callers. You  could fund it with OnlyFans.   
      
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