BAH Issue 25

eZine lover (@eZine)

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 · 25 Apr 2019

  

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                                BAHfile #025 
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    ³ Title: 'dying nation'                          Author: stone      ³ 
    ³ Date: 07-01-95                                                    ³ 
    ³                  w00p. our twentyfifth file.                      ³ 
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The dying nation (in this part of the country, I guess) is BBSing. I don't 
mean the thirty-line-four-gigabyte-of-porno-gifs-and-elite-shareware 
MajorBBSes (see Murmur's file on MBBS'es), I mean actual one-two line 
hobbyist boards set up by people for fun. They're rare now, for two 
reasons. One is the Internet, which can only go so far. The other is what I 
just mentioned, MajorBBSes where eleven-year-olds pay to sit and get 
flamed and thrown in "jail" by other eleven-year-olds. It's a horrendous 
mess, and it doesn't look easily correctible. 

Actually, I don't give a fuck if everyone's moving to the Internet. In my 
opinion, the best part of a BBS is the message base, and that's something 
that the Internet CANNOT offer me, since the newsgroups are just so 
overpopulated and so many messages a day go through them. I can't keep up 
with THAT, I'm doing the best I can keeping up with the few nets I 
subscribe to daily. Plus, to my knowledge, there's no QWK mail system for 
newsgroups, so there's no point. 

I can see people having interest in IRC, and it's much easier for the warez 
people to have elite ftp sites, but, still, that really doesn't compare. 

There's LESS people on BBS nets and message bases, and it really is much 
better, because of that reason. 

It's also easier to get warez on a BBS than it is to remember those icky IP 
addresses, but, people seem to like it that way, oh well. I sit on IRC all 
day, and the only time I'm off is when I'm setting up a conference, taking 
a shower, talking to someone, or getting my daily QWK packet off a local 
board. It's fun. 

Lamers have moved into the hobbyist boards as well. That's another reason 
people are moving out of the BBS scene. Like there's less lamers on the 
Internet or on a MBBS. People come in and ask stupid things, like "where's 
the warez?" or "why is your ansi ripped off XXX from XXX?" 

The BBS scene is also being RUINED. There's now a great abundance of '100% 
Art' boards, which are pretty much always lame with conversations about 
groups, distros, and members. 

Message nets are a key part of a BBS, and those are being ruined too. 
There's a net that Neko carries on his board called 'PhreakNet'. It gets 
ten messages a day, on a good day. Three of the messages are test 
messages. ("Can anyone see this!!??!!") The rest are mindless messages 
about how hard it is now to set up an 800 and how much people will charge 
to do it. The extent of phreaking on this particular net is setting up 
illegal 800 numbers, and that's discussed enough already. Plus, almost 
every board ON the net is one of those '100% Art' boards, or seem like it. 

I think there's an overabundance with BBS softwares, as well. One time, up 
high in some ANSI group, someone found a hex editor, and decided to mangle 
their copy of whatever elite program they were using for their BBS, and 
made it look entirely different from the software itself. Now, people 
ADVERTISE mangled softwares in the ads for their BBS. There's no 
difference. Hell, you can only go so far with a hex editor, I wouldn't go 
around looking for a board to call and go "Hey, this board's el33t, it's 
got heavily modified obv/2!@#!@@#$". I guess that's what gets people to 
call those boards, because usually nothing in the ad looks better, because 
the ad itself is probably a two hundered line ANSI and, at the end, 
something like this: 

                                BLADES OF HELL 
                                [212] PRI-VATE 
                     H/P/A/V/C/Q/K/R/A/D/E/L/E/E/T/N/I/G/S 
                                sysop: LaMEFuCK 
                                   100% ART 
                            HeAViLY MoDDeD ReNEGaDE 
    Art * 0 Day Warez * 0 Day Art * ACiD * CiA * iCE * FuCK * NuKE * ElEET 
                 NiGGeR * NiGS * H0eZ * NWA * NWO * FiRM * SeX 

Well, you now have a two hundered and ten line ad for your BBS that 
nobody's going to be able to call. How much sense does that make? 
Yet people do it anyway. Stupid, stupid, stupid. 

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