-=> Quoting Eric Oulashin to Nancy Backus on 01-24-11  11:24 <=-

 > flame echos anyway, that is) as well, especially in the civil ones like
 > this one and the others I hang out in...  :)  (Yeah, yeah, I remember
 > that this one hasn't ALWAYS been this civil... but it's been pretty good
 > for a while now... )

 EO> :)  There seems to still be some flaming in some of the echos.. 
 EO> Recently, I've heard some people refered to FidoNet as
"Fight-O-Net"
 EO> because of the lack of civility in some echos.  I hadn't noticed that
 EO> much before though, in the 90s. 

It depends on the echo, always has...  And it did get worse for a while. 
It wasn't as apparent on the lower echelons, but up in leadership
levels, it got pretty bad.  I think that mostly that has died down
now... but the residuals from that still linger...

 > There had been gating back and forth, not always with permission... It
 > was a not-really-so-good an idea, since mostly what it did was mess with
 > the safeguards that Fidonet had...

 EO> I can understand that..  It seems that FidoNet has always been fairly
 EO> moderated with rules, whereas Usenet is not.

That's been my take on things, too..  There are, of course, exceptions
both ways...  ;)

ttyl     neb

... To err is human.  To blame it on someone else is even more human.

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