Hello, mark.

Sunday March 06 2011 at 20:59, you wrote to Allie Fraser:

 ml> the "snoozes" are the playful name for the fidonet
newsletter which is
 ml> published weekly... these days there is also a "competing" gazette
 ml> which has more articles than the snooze in recent years...

Let me educate you about the FidoGazette...I started the FG initially in
2007 because Fidonews is being held hostage by someone who absolutely hates
Americans and is trying to make Fidonews die off.  After a few issues, I
gave up on the FG because of my personal health problems, but Janis Kracht
took it upon herself to start publishing it again.  I still have the
software to publish the FG (which happens to be the same software that's
used to make the Fidonews too) if I had to do it over again.

To make it perfectly clear to you and everyone else: the FidoGazette IS NOT
IN COMPETITION WITH FIDONEWS.  It's simply another newsletter run by people
who care about Fidonet.  I don't think you've read an issue of the FG
lately by what you are saying, but as an example, I took the very
out-of-date "BBS Software List" in Fidonews and have extensively
updated it as well as verifying each entry in the list /myself/.

There was going to be a third newsletter to be published by Thom LaCosta,
but he accused me of stealing his idea when I started publishing the FG
initially and several other people jumped in on me even though none of them
have ever had a single shred of evidence to prove otherwise.

Not that anyone gives a rat's ass anymore it seems, but I thought I'd make
that clear. :)

Later,
Sean

... The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know

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