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echo: alaska_chat
to: Steven Horn
from: Roger Nelson
date: 2006-11-10 08:08:08
subject: Fidonews controversy

Steven Horn wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 SH> He may have done but people should have objected to the content of
 SH> the article instead.  As Vlist admitted in his more recent article,
 SH> the service he was describing is essentially worthless. 

Just as he is, I'm sorry to say.

 SH> The office had been abused before BF assumed it and is likely to be
 SH> abused again if BF leaves it.  Blame Tom Jennings for this because
 SH> he not only based Fidonet's structure on a very naive view of human
 SH> nature but also killed off IFNA in 1988 for good measure.

Yeah, but hope springs eternal, I guess.

 SH> You don't have to be sorry.  You could consider yourself lucky. :-)

I suppose.  (-:

 SH> I didn't get my node until 1990 but I had been a point since 1988
 SH> and Germer took over moderating PERFECT in 1989.

I was posting in echoes as a user since 1984 or thereabouts and then
decided to become a node. Look at me now.  (-:

 SH> I'll have to areafix COFFEE_KLATSCH.

I think you'll like it.


Regards,

Roger 
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