AWL> Paul, you are indeed a pleasure to communicate with. That message would be 
AWL> invaluable if I were to take the Fido-sillyness to the HREOC. (Rod, have 
AWL> you noticed this?)

AWL> Nodelists other than FidoNet are mostly tiny circlejerks of loonies, or 
AWL> specialised tools like NBBNet and TWMBANet...

You can have tiny circlejerks of loonies within Fidonet too.  How
far do you think FOURTH_REICH gets?  LOCUSER doesn't get much more
coverage.  There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for these do-your-own
nets to start up.  Fidonet is absolutely adequate.  Any echo being
carried by another-net could be just as easily carried by the same
people within fidonet.

AWL> There are a few largish ones, PODS AmigaNet etc, but they have nothing 
AWL> like the coverage of FidoNet... So Rod's go start your own line fall 
AWL> flat...

He was talking about starting your own fidonetinternet gateway
if you don't like the way Michael is operating his.  You can do
this, in fact Michael publicly asked for anyone in the entire
Zone 3 to take over, because he is dropping it.  Now's your big
chance, because there are ZERO competitors.  It will only cost you
a few $K per year, and if you can afford to blow it on lawsuits,
you can afford to spend it on gateways instead.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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