On 23.03.2024 20:24, Jas Hud wrote to Michael Selhof:

-> -> -> -> -> -> ->   To: Michael Selhof
->   Re: Re: BBS Support Forum
->   By: Michael Selhof to Ross Branham on Sat Mar 23 2024 10:34 pm
-> 
->  > But good will from my side isn t enough to fill this Forum with life,
->  > knowledge and expierience! But  what do you invest? A little time and your
->  > big
->  > Knowledge! Not more, but also not less! It is always easier to say things
->  > dead. And . it is right.. Nobody said to me, do this.
->  >
->  > But I love this hobby (bbs ing), many of you, too! I wanna show interested
->  > people how great, beautiful and interesting this Hobby can be.
->  >
->  > That s my goal!
-> 
->  i suggest you setup a forum and network it to your bbs msg bases.
-> if you're using synchronet you can use nntp to link them.
-> a few of us did that back in the day.
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Hi Jason

Thank you for your suggestion! I have to look, if this could be possible with
the
commercial Software (XenForo). But I'm not shure if this could be realized.

But Messages are only one part of the forum. Maybe you can take a look on it
and get an impression of what it could become. I think the forum is something 
between reading/viewable and direct showing/helping... One day.

www.sysops-finest.org

That's, in my opinion, the difference between pure Message networks and a modern
forum.  But I also think that the news networks have to be popular! Ideally, the

forum serves to collect targeted information and make many people aware of 
other BBS's or news networks. 

People who may be planning to open a BBS themselves, to provide assistance with
hardware/software/tools, etc., so that the BBS family remains as large as
possible.

That's why I added the important thread "BBS's introduce themselves". Modern
BBS's are reachable from the WWW, too. So things changed since the 90's.
The possible application range for a BBS has therefore increased. As an example 
I would like to use ANSI/ASCII vs. web or graphic design.

These things cannot be represented in a news network, but they have also become 
important in today's BBS world.

The Forum could show things, what a network couln't.

All I wanna try is to get things collected and bundled back to on point.
Information in
the forum and with these Information back to a BBS/Sysop, or an interested
Visitor.

Sharing knowledge and experience costs nothing but a new Sysop become a good
start
into the BBS family. And don't be angry, young people don't look at news
networks first. They know WWW. And the goal is, or could be, from the WWW to the
BBS scene. Into
our Hobby!

Therefore, and I can only repeat myself, a forum only works if there is
acceptance and 
the meaning behind it is understood. I like to repeat myself here. It's all
about this hobby and not about me as a person.

This would work if as many people as possible recognized or acknowledged it!

In my opinion, be the ideal case!

Greetings

Mike
 
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