Msg: 191 *Conference*

07-09-91 07:50:43

From: JIM SCHEEF

To : RICHARD HANSON

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #183 (BOARDWATCH)

Rick,
    You're making too big a deal of this. A new user (one who might be
overwhelmed) is not prepared to write logon scripts, etc. (S)he probably
doesn't know what a logon script is let alone how to write one. Like your
'solution' for the large .CO file, this is a situation for 'low-tech'. When I
log on a new BBS, I first explore the message base as that tells me about the
board and it's character. But that's not what I did when I was new to BBSs;
back then I went for the file directories first to see what I could download.
The BBSs that provided the most usefull files in the easiest to download form
were the ones that I returned to. Later I discovered that there was another
whole world in the message base. My idea of the ideal BBS is very different now
from when I first started and 'felt that excitement' of discovery.
                                      Jim