Re: Conference Traffic

> On another note, I believe if the BBS internetworking model was updated to us
> modern technology, it would become a direct competitor and surpas the current
> internet model of internetworking.  Just for the simple fact that the BBS mod
> does not use search engines or care for net neutrality. Also, BBS's would
> virtually do away with mass mail systems like yahoo and hotmail if there were
> "mini-bbs" systems that could be set up in 10 minutes that had all
> computer services wrapped up into one program.
>
> In a sense, I believe every single computer in every single house should be
> running a type of "BBS" which hosts their web page "instead of
> "instead of yahoo", files "instead of sourceforge", and e
> "instead of tucows"  If a BBS was designed right, with the right ph
> theory, it could completely change the rules of the internet in favor of the
> individual.

That would be nice, however I don't think it'll ever happen because some users
out there can't even install programs on thier own machines, let alone maintain
even a simple BBS. What you are talking about is basically what I have running
over here, but for example if my brother-in-laws tried it they'd be lost in a
second. I admit it's a nice idea, but I don't think it'd work for the masses.

- Scotty
- Deep Space 69 BBS
- telnet://nwebt.com

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