Richard, at 02:50 on Nov 01 1995, you wrote to Rod Speed ...

. . .[chomp]. . .

RB> There is only ONE reason why I have written this again, (as 
RB> I didn't intend to waste my time arguing with such an idiot 
RB> like you!) and that's because some gutless wimp (own up 
RB> whoever you are) has complained and John Chan can't post 
RB> into the echo's here because his bbs doesn't have them now. 

Nothing to do with gutless wimps!  John Chan started to post his commercial
messages in the Australia wide sysop administration echo.  When advised to
desist he didn't.

RB> The reason given to him was: "you are posting commercial 
RB> messages on Fidonet which is not allowed"

RB> This as we all know is not true with this area and a few 
RB> others (which were the only areas he used) are intended for 
RB> this.

BullShit!  He was peddling his deal in the Sysop echo.  This is the ONLY
Australia wide echo allowing commercial advertising (in FidoNet).

. . .[chomp]. . .

RB> These bbs's will all be dead soon anyway! The internet will 
RB> make them completely redundant. (they are now anyway)

Doesn't seem to stop you from tryng to milk them for all the advertising you can.

The FidoNet BBS network is not shrinking since the surge in Internet use,
if anything it is still growing.

David
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