Moving on

Back in the beginning of Networks, when I set up a Bulletin Board System in 1977, the second in CA, and 37th in the entire world. It had ONE telephone line, a 300 baud Modem, and was on one 5.25 diskette for downloading. In the next six months added three floppy drives. Then, swapped them for 4 - 8" drives with 1 MEG online... Added another telephone line, then two more, eventually it grew to 16 telephone lines @1200 baud, at a cost of 14.95 per month, per line, plus my first 5 Meg HD @ $1200! Eventually going to 56k Modems. Eventually the Internet began, and I joined, giving FREE email, forums, and downloading to anyone who called on my 32 lines. Finally after over 20 years of spending 6-7 hours a day maintaining the system, I shut it down, so that I could enjoy the Internet myself. In all this time, only THREE people ever made a donation to help pay for the cost of operation... Maybe as many per year thanked me for what I was doing, yet, I had thousands of people from all over the world calling the nummbers to get access. They called from places like England, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Saudi, Africa, South America, Australia, Japan, etc... Today, the Network is called the Internet instead of Fidonet or USENET, and everyone is paying for their own access... We called it a Hobby, we did it for OUR enjoyment, or satisfaction and interest, sharing what we could do, with those who could not. We got a lot of pleasure out of it, and made a lot of friends. By 1980 we had a convention once a year where eventually hundreds showed up, out of thousands who ran a BBS. Today, my three best friends are all people who accessed my system, and eventually ran their own BBS back in the beginning, before the Internet even existed. Was it worth all the time and money I spent? YOU BET IT WAS! If I was not enjoying what I was doing, would have quit the first year. But, as I did it for my own pleasure, instead of looking for thanks, I got all that I needed out of my Hobby. If you have fun creating your scenery, keep doing it for that reason alone. If you get one person who thanks you, realize that for every one who does, there can be 1000-10,000 who do like it, and say nothing. For that kind of statistic is what Polititians work with, they know for every one person complimenting or complaining, about 10,000 feel the same and never write. Its just human nature, prolific writers will write the government to complain, others with the same thoughts never will. I just checked, and see the only piece of your scenery that Im using is the one with Morro Rock. Its a good job, thanks. Why havent I said so before? Well, the first time I added it, I paid particular attention to it. Now, even though I fly up and down the coast frequently, it has become part of the scenery I see, and forget it was not in the FS originally. That may be what happens with everyone... BUT, after doing a search for your name, Ive now downloaded several others which I'll install later today. Mainly Auburn Airport, which I'll be using or seeing it a lot more. As I prefer to fly to enhanced Municipal or GA airfields. With GA-Traffic adding GA aircraft, it will provide excellent AI traffic there. Don't quit, just mention that you have created something specific, you will get more downloading it, more responses like those here. People tend to write in the forums more than they do send email. I probably write a dozen messages here, for every email I write. Yet I have 5 kids, 17 grandchildren, and 167 cousins I could send email too... But, even we communicate on the family website instead of sending email direct. Thanks for Auburn, I enjoy flying in OR - WA - CA - NV - AZ area mainly, so it will become a regular destination from these areas. Bob