On 2019 Mar 10 19:46:52, you wrote to me:

 ml>> yes, really...

 BF>    So, what happens when you click on e.g. fidonews.eu?

click it where? how can you click on something in an 80x25 ASCII terminal???

 BF> What if you choose "Check it out anonymously"? Wouldn't that be your
 BF> very first choice if you were new to our network?

nope 'cause it wouldn't be being seen like you are assuming it would be...

 BF>    Where's the catch-22 there?

completely forget that you know anything at all about fidonet... you don't have
a clue what echomail or netmail is... no idea what a "mailer" or "tosser"
are... now try to figure out how to join fidonet...

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

you are ibcluding yourself in that count, right? especially with your "click
this" and "click that" statements... there ain't no clicking anything in
fidonet, man! hahahahaha...

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

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

 BF>    Some of us still take this seriously,

really? yet you "click this" and "click that"... fidonet doesn't do "clicks"
and "links"... fidonet is pure ASCII text... no links, animations, or pretty
pictures...

 BF> a vast majority don't give a shit. And we can see the result, but the
 BF> majority prefer to put a blind eye without regarding the negative
 BF> impact it has on our network.

hummm...

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

really??? you take this as an opportunity to wave the fidoweb dick in folks'
faces again??? deity, you take the cake!

)\/(ark

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wrong...
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