Subj : Rec'd Operating System for SBBS 3.19c+
To   : Nightfox
From : MRO
Date : Tue May 03 2022 12:04:34

  Re: Rec'd Operating System for SBBS 3.19c+
  By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue May 03 2022 09:19 am

 >   Re: Rec'd Operating System for SBBS 3.19c+
 >   By: MRO to Nightfox on Mon May 02 2022 09:34 pm
 >
 >  >> My BBS gets users, and while some are sysops, I'm not convinced all
 >  >> are sysops.
 >
 >  MR> are you sure? have you checked lately?
 >
 > Some of them occasionally send me emails saying things like they just found
 > out BBSes still exist etc. and they say they want to thank me for running
 > mine, etc..
 >

yeah i get that too but we have really lost like 99.99% of our users.
it's been bad and getting worse over the last 3 years or so.

I'm not sure how to bring in new people or bring the old ones back.
i thought having web clients would help a lot, and now we have a bunch.

We need some type of new draw.  years ago i suggested that we incorporate torrent technology into synchronet so we could share our file bases.  that might be helpful to expand synchronet into a torrent site community software.

The thing is, i know a lot of sysops would mess with the files, or not have their ports open for the transfers.  if we had networked msgs bases and someone messed with the files, that would mess it up for their sharing in the swarm.

Also, when i had bbstorrents i had a lot of sysops who downloaded files and just couldnt get it.  some even didnt know where the files were going when they downloaded them, so they ended up getting 160 gigs 2 or 3 times.
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