Rob Canfield wrote in a message to All:
RC> Hello All,
RC> My wife and I home school our son (age 5) and our daughter
RC> (age 1, no it's not too early) :)  My parents who live near
RC> us also homeschool my two nieces (ages 10 and 13).  We are
RC> very involved in homeschooling and homeschool support both
RC> in our local group (Sacramento Council Of Parent Educators,
RC> SCOPE), as well as within our church.  We have a real desire
RC> to support home schools both in our local area as well as
RC> nationwide.
RC> To this end, I have created a new BBS network called the
RC> Home School Support Network (HSSNet).  It is a fidonet style
RC> message network with echos on curriculum, activities, legal
RC> issues, and more.  It is brand new and very small at this
RC> point but I hope to see it grow as I believe it will be of
RC> benfit to home school parents and students everywhere.
RC> If you are a BBS sysop, or if you can get your BBS sysop
RC> interested, please netmail me at 1:203/327 for more details.
RC> I'm looking for systems that are willing to hub as well as
RC> nodes.
   Oh, Gee, that makes sense!  Let's start making more networks!
   What's wrong with Fidonet?  Where are we heading with _this_ one?
   - a different network for every echo?  Let's have a homeschool network,
   and a altnews network, and a brit_car network, and a teen-chat network,
   and our systems can spend the whole night calling each other back and
   forth as nodes on a zillion different networks!
   That's why we have more than one echo on Fidonet!  Care to explain
   why your purpose wouldn't be served equally well just by creating
   another echo?  Or just staying with this one?  Seems to me that
   HOMESCHL is doing a just fine job of keeping homeschoolers, or those
   with an interest, in touch with each other. If, as a sysop, I have
   to set up with another network just to continue to offer the same
   service, I'll just have to settle for the half that Fido provides,
   thanks.  I think your idea is silly.  Just like setting up a second
   daily newspaper in a small town - that happened a few years ago here,
   and the upstarts went broke, I'm happy to say.  But for the time that
   it was up and running, if you wanted to put in a classified ad, you
   had to put it in both papers.  Ditto for reading.  Nice networking!
    I have to stop now; I'm getting hot!
--- timEd-B10
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