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What makes a BBS work
By:Nick Schade
Date: 2/21/1999, 9:57 am
In Response To: Re: A small request for Nick...+ (Bram)

Traffic generates traffic. If there is not much traffic on a bulletin board there is not much reason to read it. I am not exactly sure what got this board kick started, but once it got momentum there seems to be no stopping it.

I would like to see my new bulletin boards get kick started. If anyone wants to help, head over to the kayak forum and start posting messages. While they seem to be generating traffic, more traffic will spawn more messages. And more messages will generate more traffic.

> Well Nick, you could join the Osprey Tours BBS, they had only 11 postings
> in 1998 but all kidding aside this is the best BBS inspite of the
> occasional incedents of ruffled feathers. I peruse the Bear Mountain
> board, the strip building board, the WCHA board and they are rather plain
> by comparison. Topics here are varied and lively (sometime too lively but
> so what) and are frequently humorous. I subcribe to the baidarka list and
> am a past subscriber of Paddlewise (too mant posts) and it this BBS and
> the baidarka list that keeps me interested. If this BBS causes you a lot
> of work then you have my thanks for doing an excellent job. Mind you,
> without it's participants a BBS is just a hollow shell and we should all
> give ourselves a pat on the back. Thanks again Bram

Messages In This Thread

A small request for Nick...+
Rick C. -- 2/18/1999, 9:58 pm
Re: A small request for Nick...+
Nick Schade -- 2/19/1999, 9:44 am
Re: A small request for Nick...+
Bram -- 2/20/1999, 12:45 am
What makes a BBS work
Nick Schade -- 2/21/1999, 9:57 am