The Case for Online BBS's

["Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net>]

BBS's serve purposes.  NNTP newsgroups are great, fantastic.  You can 
interact with a ton of people and find answers to any of your questions, and 
then that's also the downside.  You interact with a ton of people.  A BBS 
can bring the interaction to a smaller, more intimate level.

If there's no reason for a BBS, then there's no reason for a web page.  It's 
there to disseminate information.  It was the webserver of 20 years ago.  A 
place you would go to find out information, talk to other people, play 
games, transfer files, etc.  There is something sacred about logging in 
through a terminal, just as there's something sacred about the command line 
interface instead of a GUI.  I love the old BBS games, and I know I have 10 
minutes to log in someplace once day and interact, instead of having to try 
to play an online RISK game with my friends and get them all together at 
once, even in different time zones, etc.....