Subj : In this list? (NET4) To : All From : David Gonzalez Date : Sun Oct 20 2024 09:45 am Hello Roon! 20 Apr 24 17:28, you wrote to Nightfox: Ro> Hello Nightfox, Ro> 12 Apr 24 14:31, you wrote to Exodus: V>>>> So many systems on autopilot... and then they just stop... Ex>>> I don't, and never have understood the "thrill" of setting up a Ex>>> BBS, not doing anything to it, never logging into it, never Ex>>> checking on it, but let it run with nothing on it. I would say the exact opposite, I put ffort on it and do a lot, then nobody connects, I trad and reply to many echomails but in my own personal case/way I try to do stuff, but it becomes like fruitless when you check your IN logsnad only SysOp logged in. I get it we all have some other stuff to do and now with even the toilet using tiktok who cares about a black screen with green letters some luser setup in Colombia?. N>> I think a lot of sysops do put time to customize it, but sometimes N>> I think some sysops get busy and their BBS becomes a low priority N>> for them for a while but they still want to keep running it. They N>> might get back to it at some point when they have more free time. Ro> this is similar to my case. i try to read netmail/private messages in Ro> every 1-2-3 days, but sometimes i just don't have the energy for it Ro> and i'll sleep instead. in this year i've travelled a lot, i have a Ro> 2.5 year old kid, sometimes i have to work ;) and i've started to Ro> renew with my 2 hands one of our houses + sport + other hobbies. :) It'd be so great that areas were more active hub RPs were more welcoming and helpful but I see the same behaviour and obnoxiousness I saw back then,"it's your system", "you're i the wrong" and so on... I remeber back I 99 I had this friend in Spain he ran RafaBBS, he would spend hours trying to help me, now people just hope that you read between the lines on their two line replies blaming you... Things like: XX>>> I just saw a message welcoming you to Micronet from Nick in XX>>> MIN_ADMIN. I ahven't even recived a single pkt from there, and so many ther things that really discourage sysopes/people. :Like when you take the time to ask a question and even if some dude knows the answer he'll tell you RTFM... WTF?... Like with that attitude you show the world you sufferted hell setting things up and others should suffer much more. Isn't it more helpful to say "have you checked...". I've found nice people when getting back to BBSing but some are just .... Rant terminated David --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: SkyNet BBS | Colombia | bbs.dkynetbbs.com:20023 (21:3/188) .