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From: victoro@crash.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The future of simple BBS boards...
Message-ID: <2027@crash.cts.com>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 12:21:36 EST
Article-I.D.: crash.2027
Posted: Fri Nov 20 12:21:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 20:56:03 EST
References: <4942@ncoast.UUCP> <246@usl-pc.UUCP> <339@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: victoro@crash.CTS.COM (Dr. Snuggles)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 41
Keywords: BBS future software complex

In article <339@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>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 we already have.
>
>Call 'ddsw1' sometime at (312) 566-8911 or 566-8912, or any one of several
>others in Chicago and elsewhere....
>
>Disclaimer:  We wrote the software, and sell it, so this is sort of a
>		shameless promotion.....
>
>-- 

This, on the other hand, is just a pridefull user talking about a system
that might go into production (but the author isn't worried.)

People-Net combines a friendly Usenet interface and the ability to
propogate messages between systems while maintaining threads.

P-Net #1 is in San Diego,Ca at (619) 444-7006
P-Net #2 is somewhere in Los Angeles..


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