Roger Nelson (1:3828/7) wrote to Steven Horn at 07:48 on 06 Nov 2006:

 RN> True enough, but I still think that he placed it there to incite
 RN> certain people.

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

 RN> No one thought at the time that the editorship would be passed on
 RN> to someone who would abuse it and BF wasn't the first one, if
 RN> memory serves.

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

I sent my first email to an IP address through a Fidonet gate in 1992 and
Fidonet grew exponentially at that time.  If we had been able to maintain
that, I could still be using my fidonet.org address for email even now.

 RN> Thos names don't ring a bell.  I've been a node since 1991 and
 RN> can't recall them.  Sorry.

You don't have to be sorry.  You could consider yourself lucky. :-)  I
didn't get my node until 1990 but I had been a point since 1988 and Germer
took over moderating PERFECT in 1989.

 RN> There is this one and COFFEE_KLATSCH.  (-:

I'll have to areafix COFFEE_KLATSCH.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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