I'm gad to see the lurkers have come out. I'll be keeping my BBS running until next Spring before I pull the plug. Conference is safe until then and then I'll
poll for a new moderator.

Thanks


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Hello Randal!

Replying to a message of Randal Putnam of 1:213/742 on 2000/08/09, 11:55:08 said to All at 1:167/133:

I'm gad to see the lurkers have come out. I'll be keeping my BBS
running until next Spring before I pull the plug. Conference is
safe until then and then I'll poll for a new moderator.

Strange. Juxtaposition's local base just passed an all time record for number of active messages avaiable over a 183 day period.

Stephen Monteith

BinkP/IRex/Telnet: juxtaposition.dynip.com
ICQ#: 25082229, E-mail: stephen.monteith@canada.com
Driving a 1988 Jeep YJ, 6-Cyl, 4" lift and 33 X 12.5 BFG MT tires.
OS/2 Warp version 4 Fixpack 12
There are 50 Processes with 268 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 0d 1h 21m 33s 226ms.

--- FleetStreet 1.27.1
* Origin: Juxtaposition BBS, telnet: juxtaposition.dynip.com (1:167/133)

all time record for number of active messages
avaiable over a 183 day period.

I keep a 30 day message base. It is half what is was a year ago which was half of what is was the year before. My patrons have dropped from 1000 active users to about 40 in five years.

I hope not every BBS has done the same thing.

Thanks


--- Maximus 3.01
* Origin: Library COM (1:213/742)

Replying to a message from Randal Putnam 1:213/742 to All,

About Lurkers, On Wed Aug 09 2000

I'm gad to see the lurkers have come out. I'll be keeping my BBS
running until next Spring before I pull the plug. Conference is safe
until then and then I'll poll for a new moderator.

My BBS has been running with less than 4 callers per year now for at least three years. I keep running as it is still good to get information from some of the people that have actually tried with great success methods I have not thought of. If your BBS is not costing too much in the way of time and more importantly money the keep it running.

If time is a problem then automate the whole process, all I do is read mail now
and not much else left for manual intervention. My DOS days (feeble attempt to
stay on topic), was no different.

I agree that Fido is struggling to stay alive, I have saw the Nodelist go from 35,000 to a little over 14,000 in the last few years.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.
http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Gord
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Quoting Randal Putnam to Stephen Monteith <=-

all time record for number of active messages
avaiable over a 183 day period.

I keep a 30 day message base. It is half what is was a year ago which
was half of what is was the year before. My patrons have dropped from
1000 active users to about 40 in five years.

I hope not every BBS has done the same thing.

Ours is probably worse. I don't think we get that many *different*
callers in a month.

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* Origin: Shadowshack (1:105/51)

Hello Randal!

Replying to a message of Randal Putnam of 1:213/742 on 2000/08/10, 10:38:03 said to Stephen Monteith at 1:167/133:

I keep a 30 day message base. It is half what is was a year ago
which was half of what is was the year before. My patrons have
dropped from 1000 active users to about 40 in five years.

I hope not every BBS has done the same thing.

Strange I still average 70 calls a day. My user file has dropped but mainly I've lost the callers who'd just call to look around once a month, but never did anything.

Stephen Monteith

BinkP/IRex/Telnet: juxtaposition.dynip.com
ICQ#: 25082229, E-mail: stephen.monteith@canada.com
Driving a 1988 Jeep YJ, 6-Cyl, 4" lift and 33 X 12.5 BFG MT tires.
OS/2 Warp version 4 Fixpack 12
There are 52 Processes with 273 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 0d 7h 23m 17s 93ms.

--- FleetStreet 1.27.1
* Origin: Juxtaposition BBS, telnet: juxtaposition.dynip.com (1:167/133)

dropped from 1000 active users to about 40 in five years.
I hope not every BBS has done the same thing.

Ours is probably worse. I don't think we get that many *different*
callers in a month.

A month? I don't get that many in a YEAR!

DaZZa

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