Hello Nick,

 NA>>> Nah... Not any more valid when I hear about US politics when I'm
 NA> not
 NA>>> American. Sure, I can skip that nonsense.

 DD>> You live in the Americas yet you are not American? Then again, I
 NA> acknowledg
 DD>> that I live in Australia yet I am not Australian...

 NA> I'm in Canada... the upstairs neighbour to the obnoxious one below 8-)

Yes.  Australia is south of the border.  As is New Zealand.
Kind of hard dissing two countries at the same time.  But you
did find a way.

 DD>> Could it be that their hobby is trolling in Fidonet? Just because
 DD>> something does not appeal to you doesn't mean that it doesn't DD>appeal
 NA> to others.

 NA> Maybe my new hobby should be writing a program to randomly slam the
Fidonews
 NA> echo with thousands upon thousands of random insults directed towards the
 NA> operator of Lee's system?

Which operator might that be?  I have several ...

 NA> Each post will have a random name, and quite possibly random kludge lines,
 NA> addressing, etc. Because clearly it is not necessary to be a nodelisted
 NA> system to participate here?

Cool.  I can do the same, posting messages with a random name.
Wouldn't that be fun?  I can even do so at random systems ...

 NA> And I could gate Fidonews to many Usenet groups while I'm at it...

I'll give you all of Usenet groups to play with.  Fidonet is enough
to keep me happy, and not starving.

 NA> After all, its just free speech, right? And I'm sure you wouldn't mind
 NA> hitting the Next key thousands of times to skip all my crap?

My ext key doesn't work.  And unfixable.  I like it that way.

 NA> I openly challenge anyone to try and stop me or filter me if I did this. I
 NA> can totally usurp this echo and *nothing* can be done to stop it.

Janis Kracht was right.  He will be back.  Nick Andre.
The new Don Rickles of Fidonet.  Replacing the late Roy Witt.

--Lee

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