Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To : C.G. LEARN
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Apr 04 2021 09:18 am
MJ> I tend to think of Net2BBS as NetSerial Lite.
CL> It's not, they are two compleatly different programs.
It would be better if the two were merged.
CL> If you have 256 nodes set up in your BBS config, they should show up
CL> as just "offline" or "Waiting For Call". Honestly in todays bbs world,
CL> why would you want 256 nodes. If a caller hit "Whos Online", and has
Because it is endearing and cute.
CL> to scroll through 12 pages of "waiting for calls", he/she is lible to
CL> disconnect and move on. I would love to have all my nodes busy with
People would scroll until the end out of curiosity.
CL> callers, but the fact is, that's not gonna happen these days. I have
CL> 15 nodes available, 5 for each one of my systems, and It's a good day
CL> if 2 nodes are busy at the same time by legit callers. Let's face it,
CL> most of todays callers are other sysops in the hobby. I've been in this
CL> hobby since the early 90's, and I've seen the day when I had ten
CL> callers on at one time. I used to run a paid system, with 10 incomming
CL> phone lines, and if felt good making that money, but I always put it
It sounds like you have a marketing and value proposition problem. Maybe if you held cash prize competitions you could get 100 simultaneous online callers. You could fund it with OnlyFans.
