BBS Documentary

[Stephen Hart]

Hi Don,

In a msg of <27 Mar 04>, Spamthis!***@jksrv.Com wrote:

Sm> This was posted recently to a mailing list I frequent. Haven't had
a

It sounds like an interesting mailing list.

Sm> chance to check it out yet myself, but that doesn't mean that you can't
Sm> take a look yourself. :-)

I didn't play any of the sample video clips, but it looks like an
ambitious project. Seeing interviews from some of BBS software
programmers and BBS community leaders might be interesting. (At least
I got the impression they included members of the community as well as
just interviewing programmers.) I do plan to re-visit the website
when I have more time, if only to try and find out how they plan to
"publish" and distribute the finished documentary...

Sm> The BBS Documentary website is at http://www.bbsdocumentary.com

Sm> Obviously quality trumps deadlines, but the plan is to have the
Sm> documentary out as a three DVD set later this year.

Despite my only owning a DVD player that may not handle home-made
DVDs, I think it would be sorta cool if they self-published the sucker
on DVD rather than find that it's been commercially burned and
distributed at around $70 a set or whatever. Looks like I should
also look for mention of a price.

TTYL, ...Steve

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I got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

[snowzone]

After about 6 months of research/preproduction and 2 years of filming,
the BBS Documentary has officially finished interviews and is moving
fully into the editing phase

i don't know about the accuracy of some of the information they've
got there...

the bbs software list doens't include maximus...that may not have been
the most widely used/most popular bbs software in the bbs world, but it
was certainly bigger than the cp/m programs they listed :/ therefore
they didn't list scott dudley ANYWHERE as far as i could find...not even
the lawsuit (and there is a list of 'significant' (eg. legal) events in
the bbs world.

i had to search around before i found ward christianson's, and chuck
forszberg's name...

i'm sure tom jennings name was in there, but i didn't see that off
hand either...

maybe it's just a badly layed out site for the information they had...



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[Don Guy]

On 04-04-03, snowzone <***@hotmail.com> had a few words to say about
Re: BBS Documentary...

i don't know about the accuracy of some of the information they've got
there...
the bbs software list doens't include maximus...

P'raps it has been updated since you looked? I checked out the software list earlier today, and I did find mention of both Maximus, Scott, and links to lanius.com.

i'm sure tom jennings name was in there, but i didn't see that off hand
either...

Tom Jennings is in there; that was pretty much the first name I looked for. :-) He's listed in the interviews section, currently flagged as incomplete.


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[Don Guy]

On 04-04-02, ***@f127.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Stephen Hart) had a few words to say about
BBS Documentary...

Sm> This was posted recently to a mailing list I frequent. Haven't had a
It sounds like an interesting mailing list.

Not really, unless you like keeping up with development of the e-mail client I use. :-) The occasional off-topic message gets posted there, the link to the BBS documentary web site being one of them.

I didn't play any of the sample video clips, but it looks like an
ambitious project.

I did some brief skimming of the trailers, but kept it very brief due my being at work at the time, and being on someone else's dime so to speak. Still stuck with dial-up from home for the moment, and while I do take advantage of the office's LAN on occasion, at the same time I try not to over do it. :-/

All the same, it could prove to be an interesting project. At least interesting to those who have been around long enough to think of something other than a web-based message forum when they hear "BBS."

-d.

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