Re: Re: FidoGazette Regrowing Fidonet
  By: Nick Andre to Allen Prunty on Mon Feb 20 2017 03:38 pm

 > I don't care what people here in Fido think of me, or the messages I write.
 > I'm not here to impress people; I provide services that hopefully benefit
 > everyone but most of the time I keep my trap shut regarding the operation.
 > Many people use my services for that reason. I just shut up and hub the
 > mail.

It's all dedication... and you do a lot more than just hub the mail.  Stop
selling yourself short.  You are truly dedicated and have made your mark in
Fidonet's history... with Dbrige, your hub, and I think you may now be the
curator of Renegade.

 > But c'mon... if this was 1995 and a BBS spammed in every echo, I guarantee
 > you the precious NAB would cry bloody murder.  So if it wasn't okay then,
 > why is okay now? I thought people loved Fido because its not Usenet?

But it's 2017 now... and unlike 1995 when you could cut off a node and not
think of it every node counts now.  Plus, like you, Doc has a lot of history...
he's been around quite a long time.  Perhaps we can chalk this one up to a
momentary lapse in judgement.  Fidonet, like it or not, has become a bit more
personal than it was in the past... in 1995 we could just cut off a misbehaving
node without a second thought.  Now, as in the case of Alan Ianson, when
someone disappears it stings.

Allen
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