Richard Webb wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

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

 RW> BUt in many ways at that time, we had the better content!!!

Yep...and then the content providers left....perhaps because of the Fido
Administration, Moderators of the immediate nature of the Internet...most
likely a compbination of all of that.


 RW> WE sure fiddled while rome burned around us with that one.

But if we really had a BBS up to please ourselves, we might have overlooked
the restof the world....it's kinda like self-abuse....if you concentrate on
that, ya might not notice girls.


 RW> YOu got that right, and I"m still beating that drum TOm.  I
 RW> point out that if you pick up a copy of Part 97, (the fcc
 RW> rules governing ham radio for the uninitiated) you don't see
 RW> "hobby" mentioned there once. YOu see a whole lotta language about
 RW> a "service" however.  IN fact, right up front in the basis and
 RW> purpose section, and I mean *right* up front it says that amateur
 RW> radio is to provide a "trained pool of
 RW> operators ... "  THe operative word here is "trained" of
 RW> course.

In a permissive society, who cares about responsibility?  Once we get used
to being given everything and expect that as out right, why would we work?


 RW> I'm tuned into cesspool, but fidofight, aka fidonews, don't
 RW> care.  FIdonews has no content it seems these days, so
 RW> usually I watch it come in, see if there's actually an
 RW> article in it worth reading, if not send it to the bit
 RW> bucket.  seems like the only actual discussion that's taken
 RW> place in the fidonews publication itself this last year was
 RW> one that the FTSC chair and I both weighed in on, then it
 RW> too fizzled and died .

I tried to start an alternative to Fidonews....but the Fido Politicians
made sure that was a dead issue....I will not name them....so I got totally
turned off to that part of Fidonet.

 RW> Janis should have them, and ROss moves ham-fdn through his
 RW> system as well.  Iirc he feeds you these days.
 RW> VIew their complete archives at www.emcomm.org as well.

I'll take a peek.

73
thom
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