13 Dec 06 23:19, Matt Bedynek wrote to Roy Witt:

 MB> Hello Roy.

 MB> 13 Dec 06 11:08, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 RW>> I speak from experience. When I wanted to contact the R19C to
 RW>> inquire about a RIN listing, his nodelisted phone number was
 RW>> disconnected.

 MB> Don't think you will find anyone here who will believe you had any
 MB> trouble contacting me if you wanted to.  Especially in knowing that
 MB> you are fully capable of operating a binkp mailer and initating
 MB> connections with it directly.  And, need I mention that alternate
 MB> forms of communication have been advertised on my signature (like the
 MB> one below) for some time now?

That still doesn't address the fact that your nodelisted phone number was
disconnected. If it were someone else looking to connect with you for
their first nodelisting, how many would give up after finding that your
number was disconnected?

 RW>> I ended up routing my inquiry.

 MB> R19 has listed several at least a few other nodes since around the
 MB> time you relocated.

RINs?

 RW>> No one who would be looking for their first nodelisting could have
 RW>> gotten in touch in either.

 MB> Lets face reality:

 MB> How many nodes in Z1 that are listed POTS, and still answer, do you
 MB> see? The majority of Fidonet (at least in Z1) is now IP.  IP is too
 MB> convenient that nobody finds any use to retain POTS.

That's why we see all of the dialup internet businesses out of business
now. Everybody has access to the internet via other means...Yeah, right.

 MB>   For the two some odd years my POTS line was working full time the
 MB> only calls it recieved were from those NCs in R19 that are both POTS
 MB> and IP capable such that their POTS mailer would occasionally see a
 MB> bundle before the IP mailer and would deliver it that way.

That's no excuse for having a disconnected POTS and still having it listed
in the nodelist. Who knows how long it was disconnected before I brought
it up here in the echoes. Easy to change the nodelisting on a moments
notice, being the one in control of the region nodelist.

 MB> Otherwise,... nothing. So, sadly enough, as time went on, it got
 MB> watched less and less...and until I am done with my remodeling
 MB> project, will remain zeroed out.

Uh huh.

 RW>> Maybe you're not as popular as you think.

               R\%/itt




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