Hello Bj”rn,

On Monday July 02 2018 21:20, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> I don't hate FrontDoor, but I do not like the atmosphere of
 MvdV>> holyness that surrounds it.

 BF> I take it then, that you have no experience of the pre-Frontdoor era?

Your take is wrong. I already had modems before Fidonet published its first
nodelist.

 BF>    Back then, you had to exit your BBS program and start your mailer
 BF> program during ZMH to be able to exchange mail.

I KNOW that...

 BF>    In comes this 17yo Swedish kid with a Turbo Pascal program that
 BF> could distinguish between mailer calls and BBS-callers ( Twice>). He called it Frontdoor.

That I also know. And it changed Fidonet. YoHo deserves credit for that.

It does not make him a Saint...

 BF> And then of course he went on to to develop a lot more for our mutual
 BF> benefit (see various FTSC documents) but that's a different story.

Indeed he did. And he deserves credit for that as well.

It still does not make him a Saint...

 BF>    So yes, I think that JoHo deserves "an atmosphere of holiness" as
 BF> thanks for all that he contributed to our hobby during the POTS era.

"Holyness" is what I associate with religion. You know what that leads to:
Among other things unconditional acceptance of the ideas forwarded by the Holy
or their representativs.

That a smart guy has some bright ideas, does NOT mean that his every idea is a
good idea. Putting IP numbers in field seven of the nodelist, the phone number
field was and still is a bad idea.


Cheers, Michiel

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