On 15 Mar 2019 at 09:50p, Nick Andre pondered and said...
 
 NA> As I wrote elsewhere, some of the Fido history has caused such
 NA> irreversible embarassing damage in both Zone 1 and 2 that any idea
 NA> proposed, even if it cured cancer my friend, the first thing many will
 NA> look at is who and where is it coming from. What is the zone portion of
 NA> their address? And lets study that person *very carefully* to see the
 NA> inevitable flaw that person has.

Any change takes leadership and a desire to take risk and model ideal
behaviours by enacting them (walk the talk).

My sense of all of this, at this time, is that's not really a starter for
folks in Fido to do this stuff. I'm understanding of that.

 NA> The ideas I'm seeing: Automated nodelist production - A solution to a
 NA> nonexistant problem. 

Not so much a problem I think as much as looking for new ways to do things
and make Fido more easy and accessible to join perhaps?

 NA> nonexistant problem. "One zone to rule them all" and defaulting to zone
 NA> 1? There is not enough vodka in Zone 1 to feed Zone 2's eternal
 NA> laughter.

As discussed any mention of zones with legacy will no doubt cause ructions.
Given Fido is pretty wedded to Zone 1-6 in historical terms I also can't see
much to be gained by suggesting those are used in any potential renumbering
scenario that's been mooted.

 NA> laughter. A new fidonet.io website? Maybe a good idea, but slightly
 NA> misguided execution.

I think content is more important than where it is rested right now. If it's
not right regardless of location it needs to be updated etc. With fidonet.io
you have folks who are doing their best to help. If the info is factually
incorrect then I'd certainly touch base with them to correct/update it. As a
tool to get access/awareness of folks onto Fidonet it's got to be better than
sites lacking current info on them.

 NA> Its 2019 and its easier and quicker to get an Internet connection, set
 NA> up a router, Wifi, than it is to get a Fido system running correctly.

Yep.

Best, Paul

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