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Hello Roy - 

BS>>> 3. How does a gateway suck an echo dry? Fido users will
BS>>> still connect via Fido. Internet users will continue to
BS>>> connect, only through a new mail server. 

CA>>> Email list users are "lurkers" here not contributors. 

TT>> That's not true: contributions can be made from both
TT>> sides: echo or list. 

CA>> Inertia being the most common human trait users who need
CA>> expend no effort to receive the echo messages along with
CA>> their other email messages are not motivated to write
CA>> replies. They "lurk". 

RJT> People who tie in to this type of medium, whether on the
RJT> fido side or on the internet side, will all fit into one
RJT> of three categories. They can simply lurk, and there's
RJT> _nothing wrong with that_, as that's a way to learn,
RJT> particularly when you don't know much about the topic of
RJT> the forum. 

Nothing wrong with reading the echo, no. It _is_ a bit absurd
to design an echo for the 'unseen' though or attempt to better
accomodate their 'needs' since no one can see them or know what
those 'needs' are or that they even exist.

RJT> They can contribute, if the have something to offer _on
RJT> the topic_. Or they can do what I saw referenced one time
RJT> as "pissing in the water trough". 

RJT> Which of these categories do you consider your continual
RJT> email-vs-fido/attack-Bob posts to fall into? 

You have totally reversed the situation, as usual. Bob is the
one who can't seem to discuss any topic without an 'attack'
aimed at me. 

RJT> IMNTBHO, it'd be the third one. 

I may be pissing in _your_ water trough but I don't drink
the same water that you do.

My opinion would be that your opinion of me is off-topic but
then you have nothing you can contribute that is on-topic so
that's understandable.

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