Yes it is and hope to see more :)

I wonder if we should post on the NZ BBS Facebook group to let people know...

I'll go post it in the Wellington BBS reunion group.

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i dont use facebook or google i keep away from mainstream stuff i use skype.

David B

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Re: NZers
By: Spiro Harvey to Ian Segers on Sun Sep 28 2014 12:26:00

Yes it is and hope to see more :)

I wonder if we should post on the NZ BBS Facebook group to let people know..

I'll go post it in the Wellington BBS reunion group.

Yes let peaple know about all the bbs sytems around nz and get peaple
back into it again like old days, its a dieing hobby i have been telling
peaple for years about bbsing but no one listens anymore.
posting with qmodem pro fro dos date of software 1994 and on a 1992 computer classic.

David B

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Yes let peaple know about all the bbs sytems around nz and get peaple
back into it again like old days, its a dieing hobby i have been telling peaple for years about bbsing but no one listens anymore.

The biggest problem seems to be that the majority of people prefer to use whatever is the current hip technology to communicate. I've had a few old BBSing friends log in and create accounts for the sake of nostalgia, but
didn't stick at it.

Perhaps having a good local place to chat will help, and I think that until they can log in with their cellphones, many won't get back into it.

posting with qmodem pro fro dos date of software 1994 and on a 1992 computer classic.

Nice, I remember that program, but don't think it was one I primarily used.

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On 09/28/14, Spiro Harvey pondered and said...

The biggest problem seems to be that the majority of people prefer to use whatever is the current hip technology to communicate. I've had a few old BBSing friends log in and create accounts for the sake of nostalgia, but didn't stick at it.

Perhaps having a good local place to chat will help, and I think that until they can log in with their cellphones, many won't get back into it.

For the benfit of the wider group Spiro and I chatted online a few days back about this as well. I have an idea whereby I aim to package up a turnkey BBS for folks to unzip and run out of the box. The BBS starts with a defacto guest Fidonet address quickly and is then fed several echoareas from Agency that acting as the HUB for 770 and 772.

I think the chances of mass numbers of users logging into a BBS are slim but the chances of interested past sysops or just others who want to know more picking up a turnkey system they can install, press play and use are far greater.

If we got 10 extra folks running these easy to use turnkey systems then that blows out of the water the declining figures for Fidonet NZ very quickly.

Past sysops could/would well be interested in this as would others on geekzone.co.nz

The good thing about the Mystic BBS package both you and use is that it's
being proactivly developed by James in 2014. To see a bit of software with built in binkp, polling software, echomail and file tossing etc. being worked on month after month is really exciting. I think Mystic is the ideal swiss
army knife to do the turnkey solution job.

I'd be interested to hear what everyone else thinks. Spiro thought perhaps offering VM ware options as well although that's a bit beyond me at present.

Anyway first steps are for me to to build an image of a turnkey BBS and test
it out. Perhaps David you would be interested in being my guinea pig?

Food for thought...

Best, Paul


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Spiro

Yes it is and hope to see more :)

I wonder if we should post on the NZ BBS Facebook group to let people know...

I'll go post it in the Wellington BBS reunion group.

probably a good idea but we should create a new zealand wide reunion groups


Ian

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Anyway first steps are for me to to build an image of a turnkey BBS and test it out. Perhaps David you would be interested in being my guinea
pig?

I think this is a good idea for sysops, but users are a big part of the equation that we're still missing, and that's mainly what I was referring to
in my last post.

I'd love to see more sysops *and* users join us. :)

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probably a good idea but we should create a new zealand wide reunion groups

There is a facebook group called Ye Olde NZ BBS Group.

The wellington one is just one I started to catch up with old friends, because well, most of my friends are from the BBS days. :) But thanks to toll calls,
I never made friends with BBSers outside wellington, unless they happened to call wellington BBSs. hehe

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Spiro Dotgeek

probably a good idea but we should create a new zealand wide reunion groups

There is a facebook group called Ye Olde NZ BBS Group.

The wellington one is just one I started to catch up with old friends, because well, most of my friends are from the BBS days. :) But thanks
to toll calls, I never made friends with BBSers outside wellington,
unless they happened to call wellington BBSs. hehe

Again thank you for this group aw well.

Just a question per facebook, how do you find these groups tried to find a search thingee
to find any groups pointing to bbs but no joy, can you tell me how to find
hem.

Thank you
Ian
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Just a question per facebook, how do you find these groups tried to find
a search thingee
to find any groups pointing to bbs but no joy, can you tell me how to
find hem.

There's a search bar at the top of the page which you can enter a person's
name or something, and it will find related pages. But now I'm in a terminal that I can paste into, so this is the NZ one:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/65117148912

:)

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Dotgeek

Just a question per facebook, how do you find these groups tried to find
a search thingee
to find any groups pointing to bbs but no joy, can you tell me how to
find hem.

There's a search bar at the top of the page which you can enter a
person's name or something, and it will find related pages. But now I'm
in a terminal that I can paste into, so this is the NZ one:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/65117148912

Thank you for this,I had a bit more play around with facebook and did find those 2 groups,
joined the international group an ye olde nz bbs group.

I would like to see a christchurh and perhaps a group name change from ye olde nz bbs group 2
just New Zealand Bullentin boards group or add 1,if same ones interested doing that.


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I would like to see a christchurh and perhaps a group name change from
ye olde nz bbs group 2
just New Zealand Bullentin boards group or add 1,if same ones interested doing that.

The name doesn't bother me, and I don't really see any value in adding another one that caters to the exact same audience. :) But you have the power to
create your own group on Facebook.

The wellington one was created a long time ago, and was simply a place for those of us who were friends in the local scene to get together, so it makes sense for a Christchurch one in the same vein. The wellington BBS scene was very incestuous, so we're all very close. ;)

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