Jeff Smith wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 JS> Hello Thom.

 JS>      Not trying to be antagonistic here Thom. But what real purpose
 JS> is there for you to have a listing in the nodelist in your capacity
 JS> as echolist manager if nodes within Fidonet can not use that entry
 JS> to contact you on echolist matters? 

Perhaps you have forgotten that routed netmail works...many people use that
method instead of email.

 JS> To those that are not privy to
 JS> the actual phone (If any) associated with that listing that listing
 JS> is rather useless. 

See comment about routed netmail.

 JS> uses. Your attitude seems to suggest that you wish to manage a
 JS> echolist for a network but choose to avoid as much contact with the
 JS> members of that network as possible. 

My operations are such that I am not willing to incur the cost of a
dedicated POTS line simply for the echolist.


 JS> unavailable via the nodelist primarily (I would think) affects
 JS> those that simply wish to use your echolist. In essense you are
 JS> killing people's use for and interest in your echolist.

Thanks for your comments.

cya,
thom
http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/ 
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