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From: aer@alice.UucP (A. E. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: is there really a need for BBS's?
Message-ID: <4445@alice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 18:53:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.4445
Posted: Tue Oct 15 18:53:49 1985
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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On a TNET system I used to run, in order to keep people from just
logging on, reading some messages, and "slurping from the trough,"...

We installed a doodad that forced two posts (Contributions to the System)
before anything like downloading *anything* was allowed. You'd think
we'd end up with two-line posts and stuff, right?

Well, it happened a bit, but mostly we got quite a lot of interesting
stuff from _many) users. We also lost quite a few (useless) users with
a post call ratio auto-user-delete system.

But, because of a generally callous feeling from users, and time constraints,
the system went down. After a while, the bads outweigh the goods on
sysoping many BBS's.


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