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From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The future of simple BBS boards...
Message-ID: <339@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 16:24:16 EST
Article-I.D.: ddsw1.339
Posted: Sat Nov 14 16:24:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 19:52:39 EST
References: <4942@ncoast.UUCP> <246@usl-pc.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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Keywords: BBS future software complex

In article <246@usl-pc.UUCP> jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee) writes:
(Hacked up and semi-quoted)

>Another thing that I think is necessary: USENET-style bulletin
>networking. The limit on a popular BBS is the number of people who can
>squeeze through on a single telephone line. There's a couple of ways
>to remove this bottleneck:
>
>b) A distributed phone-type network a' la' a mini-USENET, where
>several BBS's can share bulletins. This basically is like having a
>multi-user BBS, with the advantage that the costs are shared among a
>number of people, without the hassles of charging a fee (which will
>repel many people -- when there's hundreds or thousands of BBS's
>available, sending a couple of bucks to each one so that you can
>decide which ones you want to use, is out of the question).
>

This we already have.

Call 'ddsw1' sometime at (312) 566-8911 or 566-8912, or any one of several
others in Chicago and elsewhere (vpnet and igloo, to name two locally), and
you'll see this type of distributed bbs in action... it is very much like a
mini-Usenet, but optimized for use as a bbs....

Disclaimer:  We wrote the software, and sell it, so this is sort of a
		shameless promotion.....

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