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?

It would appear that many Russian nodes feel the only way they will get 
representation is to start their own zone.  From some exchanges in the IC
echo, it appears while they asked for more RCs to represent them, Ward
turned that down, and is against them starting their own zone.

So, it looks to me like we will have 2 fidonets...one run by Ward and one
comprised of zones 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and maybe Zone 7 is Malcom goes along with
it.

The sorry part is that by moving into Zone 7 we see a lot of Fidonet bad
manners....ranging from ignorance of othernets toi downright hostiliti from
people like the Fidones Editor.

It's no small wonder that poeple ate jumping ship...and not surprizing that
no one uses this echo anymore for things other than announcements....

Fidonet reminds me of having a loved one in hospice...a lot of us are here,
not sure what to do and simply waiting for the end.

cya,
thom
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