BF>>     You are so off in the blue here, I almost start wondering what you
 BF>> are smoking.

 RC> I don't smoke.

   So you're sniffing or injecting then?

 RC> This is the stupidest thing I have heard.

   You are obviously living in a very sheltered world, if that is so.

 RC> If there was no need to communicate, there would not be any copper
wires in the
 RC> house in the first place.

   You obviously have not been involved in any major IT-project. Just go
downtown and ask any of the people living in any of the apartment buildings
there, if they all use that coax that brings them cable TV or internet.
They all have the outlet on the wall, whether they use it or not.

 RC> Since there was no computers or electronic devices at the time the
 RC> telephone was created, why was it created.

   You're obviously not a technician either. In the words of sir Edmund
Hillary, when asked why he climbed Mount Everest: "because it is
there".

   IOW, the answer to your question is: because it could be done. Just
imagine how surprised Mr Bell would have been, if the line was busy when he
tried to place the first call...

 RC> What the hell does the OSI layer have to do with _why_ FidoNet was
 RC> invented.

   No one (but you) is talking about *why* it was created. We all know why.
What we are talking about is, what fidonet *is*. Is it a social club or is
it "only" a network? Well, the OSI model gives you the answer,
that's all I'm saying.

 RC> Why is that so hard to fathom?

   Yes indeed. Why is it so hard to fathom *for* *some* that fidonet is
nothing but Yet Another Network, in a purely technical sense.

   I guess it's because most of the original technicians in our network
have closed shop, and all that remains are users that has been raised to
the level of glorified points in our nodelist, and a bunch of politicians
that still haven't given up hope on gaining world wide Khontrol.

   More than that are only those of us, that still struggle to maintain the
old, fidonet idea of connecting BBSs all over the world into one, single,
virtual BBS.


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