At 03:18 PM 12/12/97 PST, you wrote:
>    Sigh.  Twice this week I went to perform some task that just six months
>    ago was a BBS upload.  As I was about to do so, it dawned on me that
>    they all do E-mail.  So I sent it all Email.  It won't be long and the
>    BBS's will probably go the way of CPM.  Seems so sad for something that
>    I did all the time!
>
>BBS's were never more than "poor man's email" in the first place...
>
>You can lament the "all our eggs are in one basket now" problem, but the
>loss of BBS's per se are no big deal.

All we did is move the BBS's from toll dial-up ones to free dial-up, and
got everybody to use them.

Sure sounds better to me - I _LIKE_ not calling disconnected numbers
anymore.  And it helps the phone bill.

Andy

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