Galaxyman -> Scotty wrote:
 G> Re: Conference Traffic

 >> Re: Conference Traffic

 >>> I just discovered this message thingy

 >> Back in the dial-up days, the message bases were visited as much as
 >> the file
 >> areas or doors. Shows how much things have changed.


 G> yeah, I remember when Vnet had well over a 1000 independant systems.  It
 G> was
 G> quite amazing for its time.

 G> On another note, I believe if the BBS internetworking model was updated
 G> to use
 G> modern technology, it would become a direct competitor and surpas the
 G> current
 G> internet model of internetworking.  Just for the simple fact that the
 G> BBS model
 G> does not use search engines or care for net neutrality. Also, BBS's would
 G> virtually do away with mass mail systems like yahoo and hotmail if there
 G> were
 G> "mini-bbs" systems that could be set up in 10 minutes that had all basic
 G> computer services wrapped up into one program.

 G> In a sense, I believe every single computer in every single house should be
 G> running a type of "BBS" which hosts their web page "instead of myspace"
 G> e-mail
 G> "instead of yahoo", files "instead of sourceforge", and e-commerce software
 G> "instead of tucows"  If a BBS was designed right, with the right
 G> philosophical
 G> theory, it could completely change the rules of the internet in favor of
 G> the
 G> individual.

Have you truely tried this?
I have a hard time getting my wife and daughter to use my bbs,
mail server Etc..
Even the http interface of my mail server has been a flop
I think it is the freedom the inet offers them that has them useing
there own "Yahoo" mail account.
Unlass I blocked all the ports(much like Comcast does) they will
go and use what they want.

Even though i have 13.5 GB of files here, they still use yahoo to find
the file they want.

as for games they tend to go to there favorite game page and
D/L the latest Flash plugin to get the game they want to play today.




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