14 Aug 07 09:20, Nigel Reed wrote to Roy Witt:

 NR>   Re: Hmm
 NR>   By: Roy Witt to Nigel Reed on Mon Aug 13 2007 12:55 pm

 >> A good source of info in your area would be a radio club, if there is
 >> one. Mike Luthor, lives in College Station can probably give you ideas
 >> on what's available up your way. Mike is still listed in the Fidonet
 >> nodelist. Tell him who sent you. I'm in San Antonio.

 NR> Thanks for the suggestions. I like to get a wider range of ideas. I
 NR> thought this would be a good place to ask anyway.

It is...most of the time.

 >> Doubtful. Fidonet will come to a point where we have all sysops and
 >> very few users. Those that stay will be the same gang we've seen over
 >> the years. Some fade away and then some of them return for a while.

 NR> You never know. I've just setup a board so, yes, I'm a sysop, but you
 NR> never know who I know who may get into BBS's.

Unless it has a popular theme and internet available, it won't get much
use. A month ago, a friend of mine quit his bbs and echomail feed system.
A computer breakdown was the last straw. Question: To invest in equipment
that isn't used or not? He decided that even though he'd been in Fidonet
since dirt and he'd said in the past that he'd be one of the sysops who
would revive Fidonet after it died, he left it. I've seen a lot of that
over the years.

 >> Actually it's over the greediness of one person who, if you look in
 >> his non-binding 'echolist', has crowned himself the moderator of every
 >> radio related echo that has ever existed. He's attempting to steal yet
 >> another echo.

 NR> There's always one, huh?

Yeup...


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