🚀 go-pugleaf

>You know, I've seen a lot of BBS lists out there that give the name, the phone
>number, the line settings, and *maybe* a word or two of the subject matter,
>flavor, or what have you.  But I have *never* seen a competent list out there
>which actually discusses the board at all, or reviews it, or critiques it, or
>competently lists anything about it.
>
>I am willing to compile such a catalog...

Well, theoretically it sounds like a good idea (if I understand what you're
intending to do), but in all practicality, to list half of the BBSs in the
United States alone, just the names and numbers, would probably take several
gigabytes of space.

There is a directory out there that I've seen that is somewhat what you're
talking about. It only lists MUDs (multi-user role-playing games on Internet
sites usually), but it describes them all in a paragraph. It only has about
100 listed, and it takes up several kilobytes.

One suggestion I have is to work out a questionnaire type of file, which
has questions for all the info you want to compile, then post messages on
here asking to have one or two people from every are code to help you --
what they do is this: you give them a copy of this questionnaire file, 
and they fill it out for all the BBSs in their area code. They send them
back to you and you put it all together in one big list, sorted alphabet-
ically in area codes, then sorted alphabetically by city or something (or
area code if you want, it doesn't matter so long as it's sorted somehow).
You then make this big list a crunched file (zip, lharc, pak, zoo, etc)
available to everyone in the world (i.e., upload it to SDSs on every net
you can get to so that they will distribute it throughout their nets).

Presto, everyone can download your humongous BBS list to see your nifty
descriptions about all the BBSs across the land.

Of course, I could be interpreting your message all wrong...and you have
no intention of doing anything I just spent 10 minutes writing... :)