Subj : Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
To   : Dennis Scott
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun Apr 09 2023 07:47 am

-=> Dennis Scott wrote to Rob Swindell <=-

 DS> No, not at all. What if each BBS all over the world was connected in
 DS> real time in a distributed fashion.

 That sounds like echicken's "Center of Awareness" from a couple of
 years ago. BBSes shared user information and messages in real time.

 Sysops freaked out about sharing user info, but I liked the
 telegram-like feel of it. Messaging had gone from multiple day
 round-trips with dial-up star/backbone systems to real-time.


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