Hello, Sniper.

Replying to a message of Sniper to Poindexter Fortran:

 S> files are one's I'm putting online...  <Leaches>  I'm just happy the
 S> board is active.  It's not putting up any kind of numbers my dialup
 S> board did, but, its used.  

How I started getting a lot of callers was by getting myself on Diamond Dave's
Telnet BBS List (I'm also on the Dialup list, but I don't honestly expect many
calls from that, although I did get two callers).  I also put my website on
www.darktech.org (the list site) and that helped a lot too.

 S> I ran a 10 node dialup BBS and on average was pulling 300+ a
 S> day.  Compared to the 3-6 a day now...  I look at it like this... If
 S> you build it, and its good, they will come.  Might be a few years,
 S> but, people will find it.  

I heartily agree.  I have a few regular callers and that's fine with me. 
Something today's sysop has to remember that it has to be for your enjoyment
first, not the callers'.  If it stops, you need to stop and that is why you will
see me disappear for a while (be quiet) and come back.

 S> It really depends on what you have there, and can afford to toss into
 S> this "Hobby".  Some have some old computers they are able to use, with
 S> small HD's, and some have monster new systems, with terabytes of
 S> storage space... Just depends on what you have available.  Do a pros
 S> vs. cons list and see what direction you can go then take steps in
 S> that direction.

My "screamer" system is a Celeron/400 w/256MB RAM, a 6GB HD, an external USR
33.6k Courier v.everything with a NEC MultiSpin 4Xc CD carousel attached to it
(SCSI, of course) running Max/2 under OS/2 Warp 4.52.  Nothing fancy and I
believe I have a total of $75 into the entire system.  It does fine for what I
need and I'm quite happy with it-it's reliable and fast enough for everything
that I run.

I'm seeing more and more BBSes trying to be everything to everyone - I tried
that and didn't really catch on, so I'm more of a niche board now.  I'm more
known for my OS/2 support and Cheepware than anything else, so that's fine with
me.  I'm going on ten years now running a board of my own (I've been a BBS user
since '83 or so), so it's taken me that long to figure out where and what I
like.

 S> The end result is that you have to be happy with your decision and have
 S> a clear idea in mind, then go for it.

If you're not happy with your system, then you shouldn't be running it.  
After all, isn't this supposed to be an enjoyable hobby (heheh)?

Later,
Sean

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