Hello All!

I was having a think about it, since I'm planning on making this board
"points-only", and make it as easy to become a point as it is to
be a QWKer, sort of fill in the questionairre and you're given your point
number sort of thing, I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to be badly
affected by it.

The thing with points is that I keep mail bundles here waiting for them to
pick it up, so it's taking up my hard disk space.  But with an average
figure of say 1/2 meg, and people calling every day sort of thing, then at
a cost of $2/meg (which is what you can get hard disks for), the cost of
the mail sitting on disk is $1 for "lifetime membership".

I've decided to absorb that cost for the first 100 points, so fire away! :-)

Of course, what's more likely is I'll come up with some drastic thing that
if you haven't picked up your mail for 2 weeks you get banned for life or
something, but nevermind about that!

I have found in life, that you can generally make something as simple as
something else if you take a different approach.  For example, there is
quite a lot to do to get an MVS batch job going.  Compared to unix where
you stick an ampersand at the end of it.  If you want, you can write a
simple C (or maybe REXX) program that will let you do it just as easy as
Unix.  Instead of going long-command &, you would have to go myprog
long-command, but essentially the same thing.

So basically I was thinking of some setup where you log on read the
instructions, then you send a netmail message to "autopoint", and
then you're assigned a point number, and it works straight away, and so
long as you don't exceed 2 meg of mail or fail to pick up mail for more
than a week, you're a point!

Fidonet is really all about Front-end mailers, not about bulletin boards. 
I think it is quite ridiculous that people aren't encouraged to become
points from an early age.  BFN.

Paul

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