elg@usl.UUCP (07/19/86)
<munch>
Do we have any volunteers out there to take up the task of making up a
new, fair, and unbiased BBS list made up of submissions mailed in by
we, the net people?
The IBM bias of all these BBS lists being posted to the net is
absolutely ridiculous. One is even in IBM PEE-CEE ARC format, which
doesn't do me a heck of a lot of good here on my Commodore 128 (which
I bought for the VT-100 emulator and cheap 1200 baud modem). In
particular, I notice that most of the boards in the lists posted are
IBM boards, there are a few Apple,TRS-80, and CP/M boards listed, and
NO Commodore boards AT ALL, despite there being some fine
technically-oriented Commodore boards in existence (for example, the
C-POWER BBS has many Unix-like utilities written in "C" for Commodore
computers, including a 6502 assembler). And of course people running
Macs, Victor-1000s, etc., are completely ignored. Frankly, I don't see
the big deal about a microprocessor with an updated 1974 architecture
(all the way back to the ol' 8008) and an operating system that dates
back to 1976 (Mess-Dos was originally a CP/M lookalike). And FIDO is a
real DOG of a BBS system... C-NET for the 64, or GBBS-PRO or T-NET for
the Apple, blow it away ridiculously.
We need somebody to compile a REAL bbs list, one that people around
the net can mail into and update. For example, I have a Houston BBS
list that has almost 200 BBS's on it -- most of which are cr*p, but
many of the better ones, such as Mines of Moria, didn't even make it
onto the lists compiled by others. And then my list of Lafayette area
BBS's, which consists of 10 BBS's (appropriate, considering Houston is
20 times larger than Lafayette)... if everybody around the net
contributed their own local BBS list (perhaps with ratings?), and
would mail in changes as they occurred, we could have a BBS list the
likes of which you have never seen before.
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-- Computing from the Bayous, --
Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
(Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)