-=> Quoting Thom LaCosta to Sean Dennis <=-

 TL> {at}MSGID: 1:261/1352.0 1534a952
 TL> Sean Dennis wrote in a message to Russell Tiedt:
 
 SD> Hello Russell.
 
 SD> 23 Sep 04 03:26, you wrote to Thom LaCosta:
 
 TL>> I just commented to another node that it's kinda silly that
 TL>> Fidonet, in its death rattle is adding a zone...but I certainly
 TL>> don't blame the guys....they have minimal representation in the
 TL>> Land of Ward.
 
 SD> Okay, I just rolled back into Fido after being out for a while...
 SD> are you serious?  Fight-O is putting in another zone?  Oh,
 SD> brother... more bitching and infighting to come, eh?

 TL> It would appear that many Russian nodes feel the only way they will
 TL> get  representation is to start their own zone.  From some exchanges in
 TL> the IC echo, it appears while they asked for more RCs to represent
 TL> them, Ward turned that down, and is against them starting their own
 TL> zone. 
 TL> So, it looks to me like we will have 2 fidonets...one run by Ward and
 TL> one comprised of zones 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and maybe Zone 7 is Malcom goes
 TL> along with it. 
 TL> The sorry part is that by moving into Zone 7 we see a lot of Fidonet
 TL> bad manners....ranging from ignorance of othernets toi downright
 TL> hostiliti from people like the Fidones Editor. 
 TL> It's no small wonder that poeple ate jumping ship...and not surprizing
 TL> that no one uses this echo anymore for things other than
 TL> announcements.... 
 TL> Fidonet reminds me of having a loved one in hospice...a lot of us are
 TL> here, not sure what to do and simply waiting for the end. 

        Well to have the russians leave though might help some echos :)
        I know once the russian invasion of at least 3 echos I know
        of and visited it went down hill.  So might help some
        of the other echos :)  Won't help fido but might actually
        get back control of those other echos :)


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