Charles Angelich (1:106/2000) wrote to Steven Horn at 16:45 on 23 Apr 2003:

 CA> Sure. I don't pay 'taxes' it's a charitable contribution for the
 CA> 'widows and orphans' of politicians who died of syphilis - NOT! At
 CA> one time you paid the money or didn't use FIDO, period. You sort
 CA> out who got what, I'm too busy.

When someone crosses you, you do get rather curt, don't you?:-)

But Fact 1:  I have been in Fidonet since November 1988 and have never paid
a cent to a Cost Recovery Plan (CRP).

Fact 2:  A user of a Fidonet BBS would be unlikely to be charged anything.

Fact 3:  Fidonet has never cost anyone close to the amount charged by
CompuServe or Prodigy for access. 

 CA> I can remember J-K recently involved in a scandal about
 CA> reading, falsifying, and other nonsense involving netmail. I used
 CA> to read the 'backbone' echos. ;-)

If J-K is Janis Kracht, I'd say "no".  She's been accused of a
number of sins but not that one.  Bob Kohl, on the other hand, was
something else.  I still have copies of a policy complaint against him for
interfering with netmail which I was to send on to the appropriate party if
the complaint did not get through. 

 CA> The local 'hub' will send email to the Internet for me but I also
 CA> found out the remote sysop was reading ALL of my email
 CA> (personal to my children). 

Is the remote sysop also the sysop of the local hub?  I'm a bit confused.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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