Hi, Terry Roati!
I read your message from 17.10.2019 10:16

  ak>> He forgot, IMHO, the main Fidonet beauty -- the way we
  ak>> write and answer each other, using the cute quoting system
  ak>> -- the web social networks have no such feature, and
  ak>> because of that there are no sensible talking in these
  ak>> systems. Only chirping and twitting. BTW, most USENET
  ak>> clients also have no quoting system, or have a very
  ak>> primitive one.

  TR> What some folks forget is when you wanted a technical question
  TR> answered there was no google or yahoo back then to answer
  TR> however if you posted in the right Fidonet echo one would
  TR> usually get a detailed answer and a solution to problem. The
  TR> echos were of a high standard, luckily their still some BBS
  TR> software specfic echos like that still around. Now you can find
  TR> almost everything on Google or Youtube.

We can observe the fact that hot and interesting discussions died when 
many people left Fidonet, and these discussions were not reborn in other 
social networks. Actually, it was degradation. Most people now want to 
follow somebody. They don't talk on equal ground like it has been in 
Fidonet. IMHO, people's communication has become much more primitive.

Bye, Terry!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2019
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