29 May 06 09:09, Marc Lewis wrote to Roy Witt:

 ML> Hello Roy.

 ML>  regarding Echomail >

 WD>> It seems people have easily forgotten he chickened-out at the flick
 WD>> of a finger when a sysop threatened to sue him ... 1995?

 RW>> That would have been the christian whacko, heh, he was so prominant
 RW>> in Fidonet, I've forgotten his name. No, I think George had already
 RW>> had enough of Fidonet that the bs from the xtian whacko was the
 RW>> final straw, although he was around much later than 1995.

 ML> You're no doubt talking about Steve Winter (who fortunately is no
 ML> longer a FidoNet Node.)

Yes and yes.

 ML> And again, you're right, George was quite tired of the BS and ready
 ML> to quit; and did so about 1999 or 2000 (at best recollection). He,
 ML> IIRC, was already running a successful ISP, PAOnline. (Not certain
 ML> about that though.)

Yes, it was that success that gave him the incentive to give up Fidonet.
He kept the url listing of fidonet.org to give Dossche a pain in his ass
everytime he thought about George. :o) That's why we see that dumbass
dumping on George, behind his back.


Roy
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