Yo! BUD:
Sunday June 15 1997 09:17, BUD JAMISON wrote to BILL CHEEK:
 ->> The DIFFERENCE is that Fido just doesn't offer as much anymore.
 BJ> Bill, for YOU it doesn't offer much.  For me, and a LOT of other people,
 BJ> it offers plenty.
Read, Bud, read.  I said "as much".  But that's back to rutbegas, artichokes, 
cole slaw, and buttermilk.  Some like and some don't.  The DIFFERENCE, Bud, 
between old Fido and new Fido, is that new Fido doesn't offer as much 
anymore. 
It offers old ways of doing things to people who like to do things the old 
way.
There are fewer of those kinds of people....as evidenced by the catastrophic 
decline of BBS's and the landslide that Fido's inching into.
"You and a lot of other people" is a vague and relative expression.  "A lot" 
of people like horses, too.  But you can't hardly ride one anywhere anymore 
and be legal.  You can't let your dog run wild, but it's okay for the kids to 
run amok.  There are a lot of people in the EDSEL Club, too.  A lot of people 
of the same gender want to "get married" and have kids, too.  A lot of people 
think one way and a lot of people think another way.
I don't care about any of that.  I don't care how people think.....so long as 
they don't try to do my thinking for me....or to impose their thinking on me. 
Brass tacks is that LIFE would get no where if the lowest common denominator 
were permitted to rule.
In a word, 300-bps modems would be "it" if the lowest common denominator had 
their say.  You can't use "rights" to stop the progress of advancement.  When 
the majority feel it is time to advance, then it happens.
Fido was the cool dude on campus for a long time.  But it painted itself into 
a corner and became unable to change with the times.  The times are changing, 
but Fido isn't.  THAT is a problem for many people who like and read this 
echo. Any given echo is not nearly as widely available as two years ago and 
back. Something is happening.....something ungood in terms of SCANRADIO and 
its position in Fido.  It is beyond our control.
Therefore, I felt it necessary to explain that situation and the alternatives 
for staying connected to the world of scanners, scanning, and radio in 
general. Whether or not you LIKE what I said is up to you.  But you can't 
deny the declining of Fido and BBS's in general.  And THAT is a problem for 
which I see no answers aside from getting connected to the Internet.
All kinds of radio play in grand profusion on the Internet, and it is 
available to almost everyone.
THAT was my point.
 ->> Well, I remember not too many moons ago where you'd not touch Windows
 ->> ten-foot pole.  And anyone who did was lower than whale dung.   ;-/
 BJ> I said I wouldn't use it unless I HAD to, and I did have to, basically.
Back then, you said some awful ornery stuff about Windows and people who used 
Windows.  I remember...........    :-)
 ->> Then you must not DO all that much...... but obviously, you now see w
 ->> multitasks much better than DesqView and where it's a better investme
 ->> a modern machine run other things besides a klunky old DOS program.
 BJ> No, I haven't seen that at all, since I'm still running W4WG 3.11.  I
 BJ> can't justify the cost of W95 yet.
Whoooooey...... I remember W4WG 3.11.  It made a difference, too.  Windows 
3.1 was a kludge in comparison.  But WFWG 3.11 made it a lot easier to 
connect to the outside world.  It made a lot of difference for SysOps and 
BBS's, too. And, WFWG kind of laid the groundwork for Windows 95 in certain 
areas, including communications and disk access.
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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