Hello Bob. Thanks for the welcome. It's been almost a week now since I first
rejoined FidoNet, and I am quickly forming the impression that it is for the
most part dead, and not even close to what it used to be when I first joined
back in 1993. Sad, but with the "glamour" of the WWW, it is an archaic
technology, probably populated by aging fogies like me. :)

Thank-you for the echo recommendations. I have subscribed to MEMORIES as well
as to COFFEE_KLATSCH, and am waiting to see what comes in. So far, nothing. As
far as HOLYSMOKE, thanks but no thanks. If I recall correctly, I subscribed to
that echo back in the 90's, and it was horrible.

To be quite frank, I am not interested in participating in echoes which have
been overcome by, and which are lorded over by air-heads, flamers and trolls,
who either don't know what they are talking about, or who are only interested
in building up their own egos by criticizing, belittling and putting other
people down. I find it all very immature, yet in the brief week since I
returned to FidoNet, I see that such characters remain a blight on FidoNet.

Again, thanks for the recommendations. Unless I see some serious and
interesting traffic in this echo soon, I will probably unsubscribe it from my
BBS.

Jeff

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