Re: Re: Fidonet information
  By: Nick Andre to Paul Hayton on Fri Mar 15 2019 09:50 pm

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

Then, if this is true and I have no reason to doubt it isn't, Fidonet should be
abandoned - which I think is happening naturally.  There can be no growth both
system wise or technology wise if people are going to behave like this.

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

I have talked about many times an automated front-end web-driven interface to
allow this.  Hand out node numbers, provide feeds, etc. and be done with it --
all in less than 15 minutes. Completely BBS software agnostic.

I've already started to prototype this out on a new Othernet and when I have
enough of a prototype built out, will release it to github.  If Fidonet wants
to use it - great (though that will never happen), otherwise let the Othernets
use it and modify it and just keep on zooming ahead.

I'm done fighting with the dinosaurs here on Fido, I'm just moving ahead with
those who want to do something else. I have no doubt that the traffic will
follow the technology.
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