I think my most interesting data points ontop of what Fuuko was describing were over here: BBSes - the "web" before the web! - #8 by trashHeap
In retrospect, if it somehow managed to have a large enough and active enough community id be curious if they had a governance model outside of the BDFL thing.
And I think fuuko was planning on catalog the BBS Door games, which would be valuable. Possibly should cross index to a Game Page.