Subj : qwk and/or points
To : mark lewis
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Apr 04 2019 10:26 pm
Hello mark!
** 04.04.19 - 20:01, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:
ml> On 2019 Apr 04 18:54:00, you wrote to Alan Ianson:
AA>> I could never quite understand why points never seemed to catch the
AA>> imagination of message/echomail users in NA.
ml> mostly because of no cost local calls... why be a point when you can
ml> connect to your favorite BBS to read/write messages online as well as
ml> uploading/downloading files and playing some door games... especially when
ml> a lot of systems gave users 60 minutes per day or more and were also able
ml> to offer multiple nodes so more than one user could be online at a time...
Ya.. there is the "game" part of it to keep users online for a while.
But my audience was interested in inexpensive email (which I provided by a
gateway) primarily. Then, I introduced echomail, and most users loved it.
ml> users genreally didn't have a problem installing an offline mail package
ml> since it was one program... trying to do the same for the piece-part point
ml> systems available at the time was more problematic... might as well set up
ml> a BBS with a tosser and mailer...
I don't recall any piece-part issues with Frontdoor/APX. It seemed to be
an all-in-one, if I remember correctly, as that is what I preconfigured on
diskette.
People loved the quick dialup, delivering and getting things done in a few
seconds. I rarely had complaints about busy signals. The phone would
receive many calls one after another. I had 2 lines at first for about a
year, and then added 2 more.
But the blight of AOL diskettes/CDs started showing up in everyone's mail
boxes, and like the Pied Piper, lured the people away to the "innernet"
(as they pronounced here).
I cut back my 4 lines to 2, the phone calls would sometimes be spread out
between days, and then one day my hdd crashed. :(
Regards,
../|ug
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