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[Jim Leonard]

Scott Stevens wrote:
> There's a need for someone to write a good solid history of 1980's BBS
> culture.  A lot of complicated socioligical (sp?) phenomena has never
> really been well explored and recorded that I know of.  I.e. : if you
> let your message base be taken over by 'the dude who types in all caps'
> people quit responding.  Then there are no new messages for people to
> see and respond to.  After they call two times and there are no new
> messages, they never call again.  Boards could die OVERNIGHT that way,
> and often did.

Jason Scott's BBS Documentary touches on that a little.  Not a lot, but it is 
definitely covered throughout the interviews.  The segment you'll want to watch 
when he publishes it next month is "SYSOPS and USERS".
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