Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv
From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Request for clarification
Message-ID: <560@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 14:41:05 GMT
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, Columbus,Oh. 614-457-4227 (300/1200,8N1)
Lines: 18


I am curious about an attitude I keep seeing around the net recently.
I keep seeing the concept of "well, why dont you just go use a local
BBS'?  Has anyone thought about the possibility that folks ARE using a
local BBS?  Two points here - 1) why are the forums organized under the
comp, misc, soc, talk, alt, and so forth considered 'different' than any
other BBS ?  2) There are a number (large?) of BBS which gateway messaging
and files, etc. between a usenet host and other software based hosts
(fidonet, proline, other?)  Look at that nixpub listing of folks runnign
public access Unix systems which provide usenet access (portal, chinet,
ncoast, Big Red, etc)  Why is it that folks are being flamed when many of 
them ARE using local BBS?

-- 
Larry W. Virden	 75046,606 (CIS)
674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817
osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP)	osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET)
We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.