Hello mark!

03 Nov 16 20:48, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 ml> the main thing that strikes me in all of this is that fidonet is and
 ml> always has been a hobby network for those wanting to experiment with

You, others, and I are ovbiously in this for a far different reasons!

Even in the 90's when I started originally..

I don't think of this as mainly a hobby.

And NO WAY is this an "experiment!" This is a means to a goal.

Example:

Echos are essentially "support groups" or maybe discussion groups for a topic
be it software, golded, binkd, jamnntpd, crashmail.....etc...

They exist to *help* others get things going or resolve a problem.. at least
thats the goal, as *I* see it...

Then as now, I operated my node to get access to those echos primarily, and to
send emails all over the place via FTN tech... I later setup a UUCP gate for
emails from the local net to go out via my UUCP account. I setup and maintained
a private FTN net to get a very old niche group into the at the time cutting
edge stuff. That group doesn't exist... run over by ... nevermind.. suffice it
.. run over by the web....

I prefer echos v. web forums.. I am just not into that...never was.. part of
some of the things I do right now via some Yahoo things are going to move to
FTN based stuff, or more aptly RETURN to it. As I know VZW will start chopping
off the dead wood, and this is definitely one of them.

 ml> store-and-forward networking... i really have to wonder, sometimes, if
 ml> some folks just don't know that or if they may have lost that
 ml> vision... this especially pertains to some of our Z2 brethern who are

I don't know what the issue or schizim is with Z2 and/or others v. Z1.. and
honeslty I don't care.... but what I do see is that in this there is the same
issue..as here.

Simply, you, others and I are on different ends of the spectrum of things.. I
am not here to exeriment, and this aint no hobby!

If that is how you view it, then that is your take...

Just as many things have an impact on how I view compiling.... and bluntly this
fiasco has done nothing to change, but only enhance my ill view of it! And
since the resolution to this was to use *PRE-COMPILED* binaries anyway... I
think that speaks volumes enough.


Rick


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