ml> yes, really...

   So, what happens when you click on e.g. fidonews.eu? What if you choose
"Check it out anonymously"? Wouldn't that be your very first choice if you were
new to our network?

   Where's the catch-22 there?

   It seems like almost all of the remaining fidonet sysops, 95% or so, seem to
be what formerly was defined as point-ops, have forgotten that fidonet was
originally a BBS-network:

   "This document establishes the policy for sysops who are members of
    the FidoNet organization of electronic bulletin board systems."

   This is the very first sentence in our policy when scaled all the admin
inceptions are off. An "Electronic bulletin board system" was, and of course
still is, the same as a BBS. If you don't run a BBS, you are not entitled to be
nodelisted in the BBS-network of fidonet.

   Some of us still take this seriously, a vast majority don't give a shit. And
we can see the result, but the majority prefer to put a blind eye without
regarding the negative impact it has on our network.

   With only all the working BBSs nodelisted, and all the other, glorified
point systems connected to those few (50 or so?), it would be a piece of cake
to create a true, complete mesh of fidonet nodes.



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