Hi Mark!

 s> To: mark lewis
 s> On 2/11/08 5:18 AM, in article
 s> 47B0862E.227.fidoapple{at}derbycitybbs.com, "mark lewis"
 s>  wrote:

> all of the traffic is appearing on the fido side via Derby City
BBS,> derbycitybbs.com - 1:2320/100

 s> Yeah, this message is originating from usenet comp.sys.apple2 ---

 ml> ahhh, so it is a two-way link :?

 s> Synchronet 3.14a-Win32 NewsLink 1.85
 s> A2Central.com - Your total source for Apple II computing.
 s> ___ SBBSecho 2.12-Win32
 s>  - Origin: Derby City BBS - Louisville, KY - derbycitybbs.com
 s> (1:2320/100) 

 ml> )\/(ark

A sort of similar gate relationship with Allen fired up a little while back
in the Fidonet Aviation echo where eventually Ward Dosche wound up
demanding that it be disconnected over a horrible profanity and name
calling rant typical of a lot of Internet Newsgroup behavior.

Hand copied and cross posted from that echo here for you is a sort of a
final message Allen wrote in the Aviation Echo.  And this is *NOT* a
complaint about Allen nor about gated echos and our beloved Fidonet at all.
 It just underscores how lonely it can get here:

 > From:    Allen Prunty
 > To:      All                Msg #141, Jan-20-08  21:26:26
 > Subject: And with that last message

 > TZUTC: -0500
 > MSGID: 417.fidoaviation{at}1:2320/100 0bf93a74
 > PID: Synchronet 3.15a-Win32  Jan  8 2008 MSC 1200
 > TID: SBBSecho 2.12-Win32 r1.193 Jan  8 2008 MSC 1200

 > We are unlinked from the rec.aviation.pilots echo.  I watched this
 > echo for a month and seen much better promise out of it... then I
 > linked in and it all started with the heathro airport crash.

 > All I want is to have an active participating group that talks about
 > aviation.  Does anyone have any idea how we can acheive this?  I have
 > had two very successful gatings.. probably because so many of the fido
 > people that were formerly on the echos are in those groups.  I will
 > honestly concede that this one has failed... and failed miserably.

 > Ward... I respect you a lot... but it's just not much of an echo if we
 > are the only two in here.

 > Allen


 >  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-      The Derby City BBS
 >  -=   Allen Prunty    =-    telnet://derbycitybbs.com
 >  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-      Where Friends Gather
 >  --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32
 >  (1:2320/100)

As both of us are aware, there is also a very light traffic gateway/echo
relationship in I think at least one of the OS/2 echo areas.  Where the two
interfaces, as I understand the process over time, have indeed been served
by the quality of people associated with both interfaces.  And yes, I do
watch the Apple echo here in Fido as well.  But have never been an Apple
afficiado. In fact, in all this time in Fido since 300 baud modems back in
the '70's when Net 117 here in College Station was actually bigger in Texas
Aggieland than Net 106 in Houston, I think this is my first post in the
Apple echo!

I understand the loneliness of the love for Fido, as well as some of the
very real feelings of those far smarter and more capable of writing than I
will ever be, like Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner":

    "Alone, alone, oh all alone, alone on a wide, wide sea.
     Alone, alone, oh all alone, and never a Saint took pity on me.
     For water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.
     Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink!"

Written at 3:38 in the morning when I got awakened by a boom box truck on
the street outside the house, for the forth night in a row about this time.
 With an iPod plugged in the amps?


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike {at} 1:117/3001 (Also N117C)

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