Hello Andrew

 PV>> I even have a name for the new area : DAPartheid.
 > I am perfectly happy for you to run an echo of that nature on 
 > your BBS, but I won't bother joining it.

You miss the point completely. Well let's say that the fault is mine and
due to my poor mastery of the English language.

 > You are under no obligation to read the DAP echo. If the DAP 

What I was trying to say is simply that I was against any segregation.
IMHO you cannot forbid someone to join a fidonet echo just because he is
not a subscriber to a commercial service.

A few years ago, at the University, I attended a meeting where OS/2 1.0 was
launched in Belgium. The developer's kit was something like 5000 U$. Too
much for a student. At the time IBM was segragating by income... MicroSoft
was giving away Windows 1 toolkits. 

This is, I am sure, why most dvpt work went into Windows at that time....

Pierre

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