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#1292
 	From: "PJ Gaenir" 
Date: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:04 pm
Subject: Message Board/BBS Idea 	dennanm

  	  	

Someone asked me if I would consider setting up a BBS online like
some of those I used to run many years ago.

I guess technically there's only one public BBS in RV-land online,
but the hosts have made clear that it really isn't for public
discussion about RV, more about support of their particular
group/style/views.  No, come to think of it, they are others, but
again, hosted by schools, which almost invariably means politics.

My primary observation is that getting enough people to participate
even in a discussion list is often difficult; I just don't know that
the interested parties exist to participate on a public BBS.  I fear
a couple of the ones most likely to participate are the ones I'm
least interested in talking to, lol.

It'd be one more thing to moderate at least lightly after-posting for
Trolls -- after The View From Here, a deliberately unmoderated RV
BBS, was deliberately brought down by Jonina and four minions years
ago (with language and personal attacks that would have made a
longshoreman blush, sheesh!!), I swore I'd never do anything
unmoderated in the public again... at least, not until anti-psychotic
medication is in the public water supply.

{Speaking of which, if you've looked into "fluoridation", why not,
everything ELSE is in there.}

Anyway, I can do it easily, since I run a lot of servers and software
as part of my living.  But I don't know that the public interest in
RV exists for it. So I figured I would ask on the list and see if
anybody thinks it's a worthwhile idea.  If so, maybe I'll set one up
and give it a month or so, see if it gets enough participation to be
worth it.  Let me know what you think, preferably PEM as this isn't
exactly a list topic.

PJ