Michiel,
 
> CS> Ok, I'll bite.  What was your motive?
 
> The system of the FidoNews editor went off-line. Within 48 hours Shannon
> started calling for his replacement. A ZC's system went off-line. A year
> passed and Shannon said nothing. My motive was to expose his hypocracy.
 
You will not like me for what I'm going to say, perhaps, but understand
that my words which will follow hold no qualification of anyone nor
anything.
 
My system crashed severely on November 19th and the firstone to the rescue
was ... Shannon. Actually, I was depressed beyond anything that I can
remember (non family related) and he made me see that a comeback was
possible and got me going again when basically I was left there with only a
router, an OS and Outlook.
 
Within minutes Janis was there too ... 2 of the worst regarded people in
this zone were first to come to the rescue. Although technically no
solutions came out of it, my brain got healed, I was able to catch a
night's sleep and the next morning start whatever I needed starting to
recover.
 
I regard you not any less but I wanted to put this little remark of mine on
the record.
 
There was ample time for me to reflect upon my performance in Fidonet and
how certain things were handled, or not, in the past ... by myself ... by
others.
 
We need another type of organising things and drastically alter the way
"we do business" in Fidonet. I've shared this with the other ZC's
already so when the next functional nodelist in zone-2 comes out you will
not find the 2:2/1000 entry in it anymore. Malcolm, a while ago, also
announced his intention to step down and from then on perhaps we will have
something new to look forward to. I know, perhaps I'm too idealistic and
there still will be Roy Witts and the likes to try and make other people
feel miserable, but at the moment I choose to think that perhaps something
good can come out of all of this.
 
Take care,
 
 \%/{at}rd

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