Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:

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 sides:
TT> echo or list. 

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

People who tie in to this type of medium,  whether on the fido side or on
the internet side,  will all fit into one of three categories.  They can
simply lurk,  and there's _nothing wrong with that_,  as that's a way to
learn,  particularly when you don't know much about the topic of the forum.
 They can contribute,  if the have something to offer _on the topic_.  Or
they can do what I saw referenced one time as "pissing in the water
trough".

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

IMNTBHO,  it'd be the third one.

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