Hi Oli,

On Nov 16, 2019 05:45pm, Oli wrote to Terry Roati:

 O> This is like saying other computers were the death of the Amiga. It was
 O> the organization and lack of innovation that killed it, same with
 O> Fidonet. And of course the toxic community only accelerated the decline.

I used to live in Manila and we had a large group of sysops and users who
would meet twice a year and many of us became close friends. Almost everyone
moved on to other things on the internet because they only had so much time to
spare and the internet became it. It was nothing to do with Fidonet, we had
very good local echos with high traffic which slowly died due to lower traffic
and online forums. Users got there files from Tucows etc rather than a BBS
etc.

 O> I'm not sure what you mean with "no power in Fidonet". Do you believe
 O> that Fidonet is a perfect anarchy and abuse of power never happened? I'm
 O> just reading some mails from 1993 about the coup in R24 - history tells
 O> a different story.

I don't know the event, all I can say is shit happens and one must move on.

 O> Why do you want to change P4 at all?

I never said I wanted to change P4, I asked about the attempted change in
2004. If there is a new proposal and I think it will help then I will
support it.

 O> It sounds like you are talking about FTN othernets ...

Yes.

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