On 20 Nov 2024, Aaron Thomas said the following...
 
 AT>  GD> As for Janis I did not know either, her system while in New York was t
 AT>  GD> only system not within the Net 267 nodelist, that operates the through
 AT>  GD> the entire state of NY.  As a passing thought I always thought that wa
 AT>  GD> odd. She was such a contributor to fidonet and that was more important
 AT>  GD> to me then having her within the Empire Net of Net 267. 
 AT> 
 AT> After she announced that she was taking her BBS down, I contacted her to
 AT> see if she would sell me her BBBS license (BBBS is a cool BBS software)
 AT> but she never replied. It seems like that was just a few months ago.
 AT> 
 AT> Now we barely got anyone to argue with anymore. :(
I understand you very well and you're right. I respected very much what Janice accomplished and contributed to the fidonet community. Our politics never aligned but of course that is also no secret. Still it is very possible to have an appreciation for ones accomplishments. 
As for the other: Conservatives hold things together for far longer and WE also have the ability to simply agree to disagree without bouncing off the walls w/out acting out in a ball of rage. 

... No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

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