Subj : Re: The Nodelist Revisited
To   : Bill Birrell
From : Dale Ross
Date : Sun Dec 29 2002 11:50 pm

 BB>     Consider your audience carefully and remember that Jan's IQ
 BB> probably exceeds your own.

Then again his IQ might be half of what Scott's is. Drop the personal
attacks because they do nothing /GOOD/.

 BB>     Jan and I are concerned more about disenfranchising the present
 BB> population than you appear to be. Your lofty claim that nobody is out
 BB> to do that just doesn't hold up. Changing the distribution nodelist is
 BB> all it would take.

Your concern is based on your ignorance and nothing more.

 BB>     There are also unresolved ethical questions about whose dime is
 BB> used if you abandon PSTN connection

Again your ignorance is showing. Not a single person that has suggested or
is working on an XML nodelist has suggested anything close to this.

 BB>     Catastrophic failure of internet components is not uncommon and
 BB> Chicken Licken is not the only one who knows this.

What does this (internet components failing) have to do with an XML
nodelist?

 BB>     Retaining the direct connection system has advantages as long as
 BB> the PSTN itself holds up. Total reliance on internet simply throws
 BB> those advantages away.

Again your ignorance is showing. PTSN happens to part of the XML nodelist we
are working on.

 BB>     Make a better case, Scott, or put someone on who can. :-)

Bill, /YOU/ are the one that is in need of making a better case. You are
either arguing from an ignorant position /OR/ you are deliberately spreading
FUD.

With best regards, Dale Ross.  E-mail: Dale.Ross@p1.f1.n379.z1.fidonet.org

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