03 Nov 16 13:11, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> I am contacting sourceforge as I type to have that removed so this
 RC>>> will shut down another avenue of bad sources of this software.

 ml>> now why would you do that? destroying someone else's hard work and
 ml>> effort? that's going to upset folks if you cause their repo and folks

 NB> Habitual complainer, maybe?

on the one hand, i tend to agree with both sides... i well remember the
troubles i went through when i moved to this location and could not get a
connection from the raleigh network or anywhere where else... i was finally
able to get a connection though the fayetteville net but it was LD just as the
raleigh net was... both wanted me to pay for my echos but in-state LD was more
expensive than out-of-state so i told them i'd poll at least once a month for
routed netmail and i'd pull my echos from whereever i wanted and could get a
connection... that was not taken very lightly... this was before planet connect
came along... then PC came along and proved my point and years later i'm now
the NC of the entire state of north carolina... the mian point being tha ti've
seen both sides and back in those days i was even looking for gated fidonet
echos on usenet... there were very few and being able to get them didn't do
anything to make my system a fidonet node...

the main thing that strikes me in all of this is that fidonet is and always has
been a hobby network for those wanting to experiment with store-and-forward
networking... i really have to wonder, sometimes, if some folks just don't know
that or if they may have lost that vision... this especially pertains to some
of our Z2 brethern who are in positions of influence and/or control...
especially when they go so far as to refuse to see and acknowledge other FTNs
and that what fidonet does also affects those other FTNs at the basest level...

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