Re: comp.sys.apple2.bbs

[gberigan@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Greg Berigan)]

dig@pro-cynosure.cts.com (Doug Granzow) writes:
> dcgreen@pro-harold.cts.com (David Green) writes:
> >jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:

> >>I don't know if there is enough traffic to warrant a .bbs group or not.  Wh
> >>_I_ would like to see, perhaps, would be a .marketplace group, where all
> >>the trading/selling/buying can go.  It's annoying (to me) to have it all
> >>on comp.sys.apple2.  Anyone else feel similarly?

> >Well, since Doug is in here, I'll let him take over as the lead spokesperson
> >for the comp.sys.apple2.bbs group, since he runs the current list.

> Right now, the a2-bbs list has about 30 subscribers, and it gets about 3
> messages per day.  That pales in comparison to the volume of comp.sys.apple2,
> but I think in many ways that's a good thing.  Few people have the patience
> to plow through a newsgroup with 50+ new messages each day.  If
> comp.sys.apple2.bbs were passed, the volume would be guaranteed to pick up
> some.  The big advantage is that it would be easier for someone to join the
> newsgroup.  Questions like "What BBS software should I use?" could be
> answered easily with an FAQ (which already exists for the mailing list). 
> Anyway, for those of you who run a BBS or want to or whatever, you can show
> your support for the creation of comp.sys.apple2.bbs by joining the mailing
> list now.  If I get over 100 subscribers, then I'll know there's enough
> interest to create the newsgroup.
 
There is also the comp.bbs.* groups, which could use some Apple II BBS 
discussion.  How about comp.bbs.apple2?  (Trying to create 
comp.bbs.[metal/proline/gbbs/lluce] would be extremely difficult.)
Or has this option been dismissed already and I joined in late?
 
> |Doug Granzow         dig@pro-cynosure.cts.com  or  ...crash!pro-cynosure!dig
 
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