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echo: fidonews
to: DAVID DRUMMOND
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2019-03-18 16:56:00
subject: Re: Fidonet = one unizon

-=> David Drummond wrote to Wilfred van Velzen <=-

 DD>> If "othernets are such an ideal environment why are their advocates
 DD>> wasting their time in Fidonet?

 WvV> FOMO.

 DD> I must lead a sheltered life - I had to Google that expression.
 DD> Thank you for enlightening me.

Same here...  It does make pretty good sense and is very likely 
the actual reason, though.

In spite of it's problems and faults, FidoNet carries a certain... 
allure.  A prestige, as it were, being the first real "Net" I 
guess.



... She kept saying I didn't listen to her, or something like that.
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