Richard Webb wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 RW> user base.  I know a lot of those echoes are gated
 RW> newsgroup content, hoepfully with the noise and spam from
 RW> China filtered .  

Never tried a feed from Bob....I'm finding out that what I do read on the
internet is easier to do without running it through Fido stuff...and a lot
of what I do is so dreadfully boring that no one would ever want to port it
to Fido.

 RW> YEp, and one reason many who used to utilize fidonet think
 RW> that we're no longer in existence.  THings that should have
 RW> happened while we were a major player or close to it didn't
 RW> and .... you know the rest.  US diehards are still out here
 RW> doing it .

My theory is that since Fidonet is basically self-serving("I" are
a SYSOP, "I" have a BBS, "I" have users, "I"
am a *C in Fidonet), that when the Internet offered content that was easy
to get, a lot of folks could care less if they massaged the Sysop's ego.

My argument is one that I can never win....I used to make posts in various
ham-related mailing lists and forums about our responsibility to provide a
service....and most of the feedback was negative...who was I to even
presume that one had a responsibility to operate in the Public Interest
Convenience and Necessity.  So, after having the "experts"(they
act very much like the self-annointed Fido Lawyers) tell me I was all wet,
I'd simply tell them that I would admit to being wrong...and asked if I
should refund the money I had been paid over the years to teach about the
Communications Act.

But, what are US diehards doing?

I'll retire and wait for the brickbats (g).....but I suspect the comments
here will be far more mannered than those in FN_CESSPOOL or FIDOFIGHT.


 RW> SPeaking of which, you might appreciate some of what's going on
 RW> elsewhere.  CHeck out those emcomm monthly issues I cause to be
 RW> hatched out in the hamnews file echo.

File echoes....I don;t even remember how to request them....are they on
filegate.net?  I could dlownload them.

cya,
thom
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