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   On 4/5/12 8:57 PM, Nicholas Boel -> Scott Street wrote:   
      
   > Nah. Keep doing what you're doing. It's conversation that keeps this network   
   > chugging along at a snail pace. :)   
      
   It really is a shame that Fidonet is dieing off.  I've been running a    
   BBS since 1986;  I saw Z1 heyday - and collapse.  I even got connected    
   to Usenet years ago.  I always thought and still do, that while POTS    
   Fidonet servers/services will disappear, the conferencing system would    
   survive as a friendlier alternative to Usenet.  If fact, my    
   concentration on development is in the NNTP Server space on MBSE.  I    
   care not so much to look at plain text menus/screens as much as getting    
   to the message to read and post.   
      
   > I don't even run MBSE, but I've tried it. Not so much my thing, but it does    
   (by   
   > looking at it) seem to be a great software. Which is why I stay attached to   
   > this echo so I know the ongoings of it.   
      
   I'd like to hear why SBBS over MBSE - perhaps the suggestions will    
   filter in.  :)   Plus, I'm curious.   
      
   > Current developed software for this technology is scarce enough. I'll do    
   what I   
   > can to help support it all, if only to chat in a Fidonet echo and give a    
   test   
   > call here and there. :)   
      
   Same here - I would hope that we (the sysops of Fidonet) can make the    
   conferences and data more accessible to the end user.  Internet forums    
   are easy and dedicated to topics that the user desires.  I believe for    
   our network to survive we need to be able to offer those services to the    
   user with the ease of web access.  Even NNTP access is just a stepping    
   stone.   
      
   I started a project a couple of years ago to bind Fidonet Netmail and    
   Echomail to a web forum - I got a skeleton system working, but it's been    
   mothballed by the lack of time.   
      
      
      
      
      
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