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ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT?
1. Do you own a modem? (if the answer is NO, STOP! read no further.
Anyone who would use a borrowed modem to access a BBS may one day be a
BBS addict, but is not one at this time.)
2. Is your modem 1200 baud or higher? (c'mon now, another obvious
question, but one that has to be asked...we have to weed out the fakes
here.)
3. No matter what baud modem you own, (even 9600) do you wish you had
one that was faster?
4. Have you used your modem in the past week?
5. In the past 24 hours?
6. In the past 30 minutes?
7. Do you regularly call more than 5 BBSs.
8. More than 10?
9. Have you filled up your entire dialing directory and call them ALL?
10. Are your phone bills regularly over $100 a month?
11. Over $300?
12. Over $500?
13. Is there any other monthly bill that you pay higher than your phone
bill?
14. Is your phone bill so large it gets delivered by UPS?
15. Do you tell yourself after receiving a phone bill that you will cut
back on your long distance BBSing, and end up subscribing to Dial-a Visit
instead?
16. Do you leave long tearful announcements on LD BBSs telling everyone
that you will no longer be calling because you cannot afford to, and then
check back every 3 or 4 days anyway, "just to see if anyone left me any
mail?"
17. Does your phone company send you hand written thank-you notes?
18. When you return from vacation, do you get a call from your phone
company, asking if everything is all right?
19. Do you find yourself taking naps so that you can be awake and
refreshed for a late-night BBS session?
20. Have you ever cancelled a date cause he/she wants a late night dinner
when the phone rates are lowest?
21. Do you call during the morning hours, knowing the rates are the
highest with the excuse that "at least I will be able to get on?"
22. Is your spouse ready to oil the keyboard to get rid of that annoying late
night 'clickety clack' ?
23. Do you ever sleep for more than 2 hours at a stretch?
24. Have you suddenly discovered that you can touch type from all those
BBS sessions done in the dark?
25. What else can you do in the dark?
26. Do you cringe when you see lightning coming your way and rush to
unplug your modem from the wall?
27. Do you continue your BBS session anyway because you are in the middle
of a 1200 block download at 1200 buad...and you are willing to take your
chances?
28. Do you own a back-up generator so you can run your computer even when
the power company can't?
29. Do you have a complicated set of air motion devices hanging all
around your computer and modem, because you never turn them off?
30. Have you ever logged on to a BBS, and then realize that you have no
idea what city, state, or country it is in?
31. Can you log onto a BBS, Browse, and log off without ever having to
turn the monitor on?
32. Can your spouse spot you in a crowd from the back of your head?
33. Is there a worn spot in the rug in front of the computer?
34. Are the words ON LINE burnt into the screen?
35. Do you know your modem initialization string by heart.
36. Do you consider your self a militant non techie, yet you still know
enough to be able to change the string to make the computer run silently?
37. Do you know more about what is going on in the lives of the
people in the BBS community than you do about the people you live with?
38. Do you order disks in lots of 100 or more?
39. Have you recently bought a hard drive cause you are tired of messing
with floppy disks all the time?
40. ...And then discovered that the hard drive you just bought is not
going to be big enough for your library of files, and you are going to
have to use diskettes anyway?
41. Does your hard drive contain more files than any of the BBSs you
call?
42. Do you actually use any of those files?
43. Do you compete with others to be the #1 user on every BBS you call?
44. Have you had to install yet another phone line into your house,
because no one can reach you cause the phone is busy all the time?
45. Have you ever put a BBS on redial, and patiently waited hours to get on?
46. ...And suddenly be struck with an URGENT need to use the bathroom
just as the words CONNECT appear on the screen?
47. Do you make it a point to call a sysop whose BBS is down, even if it
is 4:00 in the morning?
48. Do you have 9 zillion copies of your terminal program...just in case
one of them crashes?
49. Do you page sysops into chat, even though you see the message 'sysop
is not available' again and again, just because you think that maybe he will
make an exception for you?
50. Do sysops hate you and wish lightning would fry your modem?
51. Do you run over to your computer the instant you wake
up in the
morning, to see what is going on in BBSland...before you've even taken a piss?
52. Are you late for work/school in the morning because you insist on
answering all 235 net mail messages you've received...all consisting of
one word replies?
53. Have you forgotten how to turn on your TV because its been so long
since you have watched any?
54. Do you still own a TV?
55. Have you ever found yourself talking on the phone at the same time
you are in chat with another person on the computer.
56. ...With the same person?
57. Are you a sysop? (the ultimate BBS addict)
58. As a sysop, have you had to go out and buy another computer because
otherwise no one would be able to reach your BBS anyway?
59. Do you ever call your own BBS?
60. Do you call your own BBS from another computer while sitting in the
same house?
61. ...From the same room?
62. Do you advertise your BBS in the local paper's classified
section?
63. Do you advertise your BBS on business cards?
64. Are you a co-sysop on any other BBS?
65. ..On any out of state boards?
66. Have you been a sysop for more than 6 months
67. More than a year?
68. More than 3 years?
69. As a sysop, do you enjoy chatting so much that you have been known to
answer the page at 3 am?
70. Do you drag unsuspecting users into chat...whether they paged you or
not?
71. Have you ever started a late night chat with a user, and the next
thing you know, the sun is rising?
72. Variation: Have you ever started a late night chat with a user, and
the next thing you know you are face down on the keyboard, with the words
"press any key to continue" flashing on your screen.
73. Do you upload copies of a log-on scrip file to all the area boards so
that no one will have an excuse NOT to call your BBS?
74. Do you promise your spouse that you WILL spend more time with the
family, but then find yourself jumping up to answer the sysop page, even
in the middle of that special video tape rented just for the two of you?
75. Do you still have a spouse?
76. After reading through all these questions, do you get the feeling
that you might have a little BBS addiction problem?
77. In spite of that knowledge, do you realize you will never get to any of
the modems anonymous meetings, cause you can't pull yourself away from
the computer long enough to attend?
78. Do you find that more and more of the people you socialize with are
BBS addicts just like you, cause no one else seems to understand ANYTHING
you are talking about lately?