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Hello Tom - 

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CA>> I've never been in favor of email-listed echos. FIDO has
CA>> always been a separate message system for the BBS
CA>> community and not a part of usenet or WWW. I'm surprised
CA>> that any active FIDO sysop, a 'ZC' no less, would be in
CA>> favor of sucking FIDO echos dry to augment the Internet or
CA>> become a revenue source for one individual. 

TT> I think the choice is easy: let C_Echo slowly die together
TT> with the rest of Fidonet, or try to keep it alive through
TT> shifting to new media. I'm obviously in favour of the
TT> latter, and if you're not I think we'll just have to agree
TT> to disagree on this matter. 

The death of FIDO has been a prediction for many years and has
no 'teeth' anymore it is so very old. 

The "FIDO C_ECHO" is name recognition and not 'alive' nor
'dead'. 

The people who post messages are the only 'live' portion of the
echo. Lurkers are not even a shadow of the echo there being no
way to do even a head-count of the numbers of lurkers they
simply do not exist. 

Porting this echo or any other echo to an email listing is a
transfer of name recognition to what would otherwise be a
'startup' operation that would have to create it's own space in
the universe. 

Without the name recognition of 'FIDO C_ECHO' the 'good-ole-boy'
network would have no validation in an entirely new venture and
validation would only be determined by relevant knowledge and
not "I remember when".

re: Good Old days -

"When I was your age, all we had was seven computers in the
whole world, five of them were in Nigeria, and they were
connected by old loops of string. Instead of packets, you had
to put a color coded ribbon on it and pull the string for 60
hours until the ribbon got to the other guy. Then he had to
manually enter the data into his computer via punchcards and
smoke signals, and we liked it that way!" 

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