-=> mark lewis wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 ml>> well, admittedly, back in the day, there were quite a few Z1 folks
 ml>> that stuck their noses into other zone's business on a fairly regular
 ml>> basis... in some ways, karma is returning... unfortunately it is
 ml>> being cast upon folks who weren't involved or even around back
 ml>> then... things are a whole lot calmer these days than they were...

 DC> ACK.  I know, and was just poking a little fun.  At least one of them
 DC> (Euro-boys) seems to have gotten a little butt-hurt.  

 ml> assuming you are the dan clough listed the nodelist for Illinois
 ml> back in '93, yeah, you could easily be aware of the mess that was
 ml> going in the main sysops echos on back then ;)

Yep, that's me.  I was somewhat aware, but too busy to care.  ;)

 ml> there are many from that period that aren't aware of the stuff
 ml> that went on... they just didn't venture into those areas... for
 ml> the most part they stayed in the areas they were interested in
 ml> and maybe their net's areas... i've met a few who knew of some
 ml> rumblings here and there but didn't know the details...

Yeah, I was probably somewhere in the middle of that scale.  
Followed a lot of echos and had limited time between job and 
family raising.  I was aware of the "zone wars" somewhat but 
Fidonet was so big back then that it didn't really seem like "that 
stuff" mattered too much to me (individual sysops).  Plus we had 
plenty of squabbles within the local net over cost recovery plans 
and the like.  Also it seemed like it took a lot more time/effort 
to keep the mailer/bbs running smoothly.  Always a tweak to make 
in the master batch file and all the various individual configs 
for all the added utilities that were in use.  Good times.


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