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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: Re: More on "The Network Nation"
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Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 17:01:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  3 17:01:45 1986
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This article is from gamma!mb2c!edsdrd!ahxenix!bob
 and was received on Sun Nov 2 03:24:32 1986
 
Tom Keller writes;

>    I couldn't disagree with you more about TBBS.  I find it to be clunky, 
> unfriendly and irritating.  I use a TBBS system locally, and it is one of 
> the silliest things I have seen yet.
> 

Flame On

The system that you are using locally may very well be "clunky" and "unfriendly"
TBBS provides tools to allow the System Operator to establish almost any type
of organization that he/she chooses.  Actually, now that TBBS works with
Seadog, I would rate it one of the better BBS packages available under 
PC-DOS.  You can complain about a particular SYSOP's set-up, but please
be careful when making general comments.

Flame Off

		Bob Leffler 

[which leads to the interesting distinction of data versus organization
 and, more relevant here, tools versus constructed products.  Rather than
 have this devolve into an argument about the relative merits of TBBS,
 let's try to discuss more the idea of supplying the tools for information
 organization and the uses and abuses thereof.   -- Dave]