Wondering if a local community could use a BBS to communicate vs instant communications. Having to wait for messages and replies (even if just a local message board), could be a new fad? I need an iOS QWK Reader ...
Maybe. Back when I was younger, and before dial-up BBSes had took off, the cable system in Owensboro, KY, had a channel that was called the bulletin board. Normally, if you turned it on, it gave the time, temperature, wind speed and direction, etc., on one screen. If there was something going on, that screen would be replaced, IIRC, with a the bulletin.
A local AM station played in the background.
This was even before the Weather Channel so, as a youngster, I thought that channel was really neat. :)
When I first started calling BBSes, there were local "communities" that had their own and that did use them for communicating to members, but these
were more likely to be a club (like the local Astronomical Society) or
other oranization (like the local free public library system). State government also had one, but it was an in-state long-distance call to me at
the time & I don't remember now what kind of bulletin info they may have posted.
As for an iOS QWK reader, you might try asking in one of the more technical echos, or on FSX or TQN networks, if you have access to those. In past
there have been discussions about reading BBS messages on a phone,
including IIRC some about running a point system.
Mike
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