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posted by NCommander on Monday July 20 2015, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the make-something-count dept.

I'm a member of the ISCA BBS; in days of yore, this stood for the [University of] Iowa Student Computer Association, though ties with its namesake were broken about a decade ago. In its heyday in the early 90's, the ISCA often had 1300+ simultaneous users online, and hundreds more queued to get on, only limited by the lowly T1 and the HP DOMAIN Unix system on which it ran.

In the years since, usage has dropped and at any given moment, there may be 10 or 20 concurrent users. As one might guess, the appeal of a text-based Citadel BBS doesn't have the same draw that it did 20+ years ago. Despite this, it's still very much a live (though dramatically diminished) system. I am sure that there are still those "out there" who no doubt would enjoy a trip to retroville, and an infusion of fresh blood would be fun for all.

So, I'm looking for suggestions on how to go out and get them? I'd be willing to throw some money at it if I thought the odds of success were reasonable.


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  • (Score: 1) by Grayson on Tuesday July 21 2015, @01:08PM

    by Grayson (5696) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @01:08PM (#211887)

    > * Drop manual user validation. You're not going to have a huge spam problem with a BBS, and creating barriers to participation won't help you at all

    I agree with this one. However I doubt that is the primary barrier, as I doubt most people even make it that far. (longtime user of ISCABBS here).