Michael Grant wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday June 01 2004 at 00:24:

MG> The truth is, Sean has been looking for an excuse to leave Fidonet for
MG> quite some time now. He almost quit when Dale Ross was removing some
MG> of his gated usenet messages from the mail stream. He almost quit
MG> again when a mailing list he was gating to Fidonet got spammed. More
MG> recently, he was talking about quitting when he suffered his house
MG> fire.

Particularly the latter was a hard blow. Most people would have left fido
then at the latest, and I was surprised he started up again. I've seen
enough nodes quit after a hard disk crash, which is nothing in comparison.

 RB>> I know this is one of the reasons you've got a mad on for Janis,
 RB>> just like she's got a mad on for you because of your one-sided
 RB>> stance on political developments in the States and your
 RB>> questionable overruling of the Z1 *Cs on the van der Vlist
 RB>> complaint.

 MG> I put little stock in what Ward Dossche claims these days. In time,
 MG> and if I want to, I'll get the story directly from Sean himself. I
 MG> still work closely with him in two other nets.

That's probably the most sensible way. At the moment, there are simply too
many claims and too much politics to know what to believe.

Cheers, Bob

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