Hello Michael.

03 Nov 02 08:39, you wrote to All:

 MG> Ah, the mark of a true politician... use semantics and ignore the fact
 MG> that the flag was created to actually /mean/ "private" in the first
 MG> place, and that applying dual meanings to the flag is based purely on a
 MG> political hierarchy envisioned in your mind. Then claim that an
 MG> ambiguous document that's contradicted in other documents and always was
 MG> backs you up; all the while baffling 'em with bullshit to hide the fact
 MG> that you want to keep those nasty ION's second class to POTS nodes...

You are playing quite the fool you know. I guess you have never looked at my
nodelisting.

 MG> The FTSC is dead, and it's high time we buried it, because it's
 MG> starting
 MG> to stink up the place. Fidonet doesn't need those who would use so
 MG> called FTSC "solutions" which are non-solutions as
political weapons
 MG> against nodes. If these sorts of people are the sort that wish to run
 MG> the FTSC, God help us all.

It's those that don't want standards nor a central place to document them
that wish the death of fidonet. Without standards you will have no further
development and fidonet will stay in the realms of 1980's POTS nodes.

 MG> BTW, HOLD is no solution either, if a IP node is directly contactible.
 MG> It prevents one from crashing netmail directly to that node.

I am waiting to hear where the HOLD solution came from.

Cheers,
                Rick

... Does Windows NT come with a hard drive?

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