Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering some of these people that are no longer with us.

I'm just curious why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.
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Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: Geri Atricks to All on Mon Jul 27 2026 01:18 pm

Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering some of these people that are no longer with us.

I'm just curious why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.

I discovered & watched "BBS: The Documentary" in 2007, so it's been a while, but I think Jason Scott said he wanted to focus mainly on the user experience and social impact of BBSes rather than the more technical details such as the door games, software, etc..

Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Geri Atricks to All on Mon Jul 27 2026 01:18 pm GA> Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering some GA> of these people that are no longer with us. GA> I'm just curious why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.I discovered & watched "BBS: The Documentary" in 2007, so it's been a while, but I think Jason Scott said he wanted to focus mainly on the user experience and social impact of BBSes rather than the more technical details such as the door games, software, etc..
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Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: Nightfox (21:1/137) to All on Tue Jul 28 2026 14:10:03

Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Geri Atricks to All on Mon Jul 27 2026 01:18 pm GA> Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering some GA> of these people that are no longer with us. GA> I'm just curious why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.I discovered & watched "BBS: The Documentary" in 2007, so it's been a while, but I think Jason Scott said he wanted to focus mainly on the user experience and social impact of BBSes rather than the more technical details such as the door games, software, etc..

Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?
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Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Nightfox (21:1/137) to All on Tue Jul 28 2026 14:10:03 > Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Geri Atricks to All on Mon Jul 27 2026 01:18 > pm GA> Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering > some GA> of these people that are no longer with us. GA> I'm just curious > why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.I discovered & > watched "BBS: The Documentary" in 2007, so it's been a while, but I think > Jason Scott said he wanted to focus mainly on the user experience and social > impact of BBSes rather than the more technical details such as the door > games, software, etc..Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?
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I'm just curious why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door
Games.

Al's Retro Geek Lab's covered door games in one of his "Back to the BBS" episodes.

https://youtu.be/snpbAEN4I6M?si=pfH_-MPUG51Xw9DX

Good stuff :).


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Geri Atricks wrote to All <=-

Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering
some of these people that are no longer with us.

I have the soundtrack in my car - it's all creative-commons licenses
music, available on the bbsdocumentary web site.



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Al's Retro Geek Lab's covered door games in one of his "Back to the BBS" episodes.

Thanks Peter, I was trying to remember the other web series about BBS' and was having a total brain fart.
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Thanks Peter, I was trying to remember the other web series about BBS' having a total brain fart.

Gotcha :D. Yeah it's a good one. I re-watched it, or rather re-listened to
it, last night. Inspiring series for sure..


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Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox (21:1/137) on Tue Jul 28 2026 11:32 am

Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?

I don't know.. I don't know what would have happened. But when I view the message you're replying to on my system, it looks fine here, not messed up as you had quoted..

Why are these all wrapped into one
big blob?

Interesting, they were all blobbed here as well.


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Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: slacker to Mortar M. on Thu Jul 30 2026 06:22 pm

Why are these all wrapped into one
big blob?

Interesting, they were all blobbed here as well.

Does this reply look okay? I'm wondering if it was an isolated issue.

Nightfox

Does this reply look okay? I'm
wondering if it was an isolated
issue.

Yep! Reply looks good here. That was the only odd message I noticed on my end.


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Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: slacker to Nightfox on Fri Jul 31 2026 02:38 am

Does this reply look okay? I'm
wondering if it was an isolated
issue.

Yep! Reply looks good here. That was the only odd message I noticed on my end.

Good to hear. Thanks for confirming.

Nightfox

Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: Nightfox to slacker on Thu Jul 30 2026 18:14:47

Why are these all wrapped into one
big blob?

Interesting, they were all blobbed here as well.

Does this reply look okay? I'm wondering if it was an isolated issue.

This is how I got it, so yep.
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Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Nightfox (21:1/137) to All on Tue Jul 28 2026 14:10:03 > Re: BBS: The Documentary By: Geri Atricks to All on Mon Jul 27 2026 01:18 > pm GA> Currently rewatching Jason Scott's "BBS: The Documentary" remembering > some GA> of these people that are no longer with us. GA> I'm just curious > why Jason never did a 9th episode focusing on Door Games.I discovered & > watched "BBS: The Documentary" in 2007, so it's been a while, but I think > Jason Scott said he wanted to focus mainly on the user experience and social > impact of BBSes rather than the more technical details such as the door > games, software, etc..Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?
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Looks like bbs.homes is burping them back out like that.



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Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox (21:1/137) on Tue Jul 28 2026 11:32 am

Why are these all wrapped into one big blob?

I don't know.. I don't know what would have happened. But when I view the message you're replying to on my system, it looks fine here, not messed up as you had quoted..

The ones that are "blobbed" are/were being burped out by another system in net 3. The original from your system looked fine here, too.


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Re: Re: BBS: The Documentary
By: Dumas Walker to Nightfox on Wed Jul 29 2026 02:12 pm

I don't know.. I don't know what would have happened. But when I view
the
message you're replying to on my system, it looks fine here, not messed up
as you had quoted..

The ones that are "blobbed" are/were being burped out by another system in net 3. The original from your system looked fine here, too.

Ah, good to hear.

Also, when you say those were from another system in net 3, did multiple copies of my message get onto the network somehow?

Nightfox