06 Dec 06 12:06, Ward Dossche wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 WD> My system crashed severely on November 19th and the firstone to the
 WD> rescue was ... Shannon.

Damn! He won't live that down.

 WD> Actually, I was depressed beyond anything that I can remember (non
 WD> family related) and he made me see that a comeback was possible and
 WD> got me going again when basically I was left there with only a
 WD> router, an OS and Outlook.

Too bad. It would have been better if the entire mess died.

 WD> Within minutes Janis was there too ... 2 of the worst regarded people
 WD> in this zone were first to come to the rescue. Although technically
 WD> no solutions came out of it, my brain got healed, I was able to catch
 WD> a night's sleep and the next morning start whatever I needed starting
 WD> to recover.

Damn her too.

 WD> I regard you not any less but I wanted to put this little remark of
 WD> mine on the record.

 WD> There was ample time for me to reflect upon my performance in Fidonet
 WD> and how certain things were handled, or not, in the past ... by
 WD> myself ... by others.

 WD> We need another type of organising things and drastically alter the
 WD> way "we do business" in Fidonet. I've shared this with
the other ZC's
 WD> already so when the next functional nodelist in zone-2 comes out you
 WD> will not find the 2:2/1000 entry in it anymore.

Gee...it's about time you came to your senses.

 WD> Malcolm, a while ago, also announced his intention to step down and
 WD> from then on perhaps we will have something new to look forward to. I
 WD> know, perhaps I'm too idealistic and there still will be Roy Witts
 WD> and the likes to try and make other people feel miserable,

But not anywhere miserable as you make the whole of Fidonet.

 WD> but at the moment I choose to think that perhaps something good can
 WD> come out of all of this.

Not unless you have another crash and get back into your depression, errr
rock.

               R\%/itt




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