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Hello Steven - 

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

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

You aren't 'crossing me'. My experiences are not debatable.
When you disagree with what I say I experienced you are
implying that I am a liar or a fool. Either accusation would
tend to make a person a bit 'curt' in their reply? 

We were not in the same city, state, (country?) when I was
first exposed to BBS that carried FIDO messages. You seem to
think you remember my life better than I do or you think the
FIDO-police prevented sysops from doing whatever they wanted to
do with their computers? 

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

I predate FIDO messages. I was online prior to the existence of
FIDO exchanging messages on "The Source". 

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

Do you know these things as a result of your telpathic powers
or do 'the voices' tell you what happens in the rest of the
world you know nothing about? 

Those are _your_ facts from your perspective. My experiences
have been exactly as I have stated them. Not quite the same as
your experiences. 

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

Comparing FIDO to Compuserve is like comparing the flea to the
dog. 

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

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

I'm not going to discuss personalities here. Netmail is a bad
joke IMO. We don't need to debate it. We disagree. 

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

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

Could be regional terminology? Remote sysops help maintain a
BBS but do not physically sit at the keyboard of the machine
that runs the BBS. They do what they do via 'remote' access. 

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