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   Hello Mike!   
      
   ** On Monday 01.02.21 - 16:35, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:   
      
    >> Prior to all that, I experimented with operating a low key BBS   
    >> for about 3 years using RBBS-PC. ...   
      
    MP> There was an RBBS board that ran in Louisville for several   
    MP> years in the 1980's/90's.  It was called Deckmann's   
    MP> Exchange.  As a caller, I liked that software.   
      
   My introduction to RBBS-PC arrived on a disk featured in a     
   magazine (or.. it was via mail-in request, I'm not sure)   
      
   But is so facinating to be the sysadmin of your own system of     
   callers.  The mods and recompilations were fun.   
      
    >> In the early times, some sysops were very protective of   
    >> their user base.  During the dialup days, I would just try   
    >> to call any system that didn't have a busy signal. One   
    >> tended to be easier to connect to than many of the others -   
    >> it was some weird 40 column wide thing and would only   
    >> connect at 1200 bps.  I'd hang around and post messages..   
      
    MP> Sounds like a Commodore board, from the description.  There   
    MP> were a lot of 300 and 1200 baud Commodore boards in   
    MP> Louisville for a time.  I never had any issues with other   
    MP> sysops not wanting BBS ads posted, though, just as long as   
    MP> I put them in the correct message areas.  :)   
      
   The bbs that essentially didn't want me to call anymore, was the     
   only one that wasn't interested in hearing about the outside     
   world. Now that I think about it, the sysop was probably running     
   it as a personnal "letters-to-sysop" kind of system.  If people     
   weren't interracting with the sysop and expounding the virtues     
   of his 40char-wide Commadore board, then he wasn't interested in     
   people learning about echomail, Compuserve, usenet, etc.. or     
   anything else that would steer people away from him.   
      
      
      
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