Subj : MMTerm?
To   : Jim Hanoian
From : Ed Williams
Date : Mon Apr 02 2001 01:38 am

Hello Jim,

JH> EW> I consider it one of Fidonet's greatest failings, in failing to
JH> EW> get the wonderful talent in Fidonet involved to come up with a
JH> EW> reliable decent term program for people to contact it.  I think

JH>This seems like blaming the Post Office for the lack of
JH>good (free) writers in the US.  Please note that there
JH>are a wide variety of free newspapers and magazines, if
JH>you seek them out.

My point of course was that Fidonet, like most of the BBS authors out
there have done precious little to put the tools into the hands of the
users who will in the end make or break the whole BBS scene.

JH>By the same token, there are plenty of free communications
JH>programs, you just have to look for them and accept the fact
JH>that they don't do everything quite like a commercial program.

JH>Depending on your requirements, the free trade magazine or
JH>the free comm program may be acceptable.  That's up to you,
JH>and is not the responsibility of the Post Office or Fido.

I'm sorry, what you say is very small minded.  You assume of course
that there are commercial terminal programs that are under current
development, which is only barely true.  You also assume that Fidonet
can survive without putting at least the barest tools into the hands
of those people it wants in the net.

The fact is, that FrontDoor, was a blessing to the BBS community and
free to all for non commercial use, and it set the standard for front
end mail communications.  If it hadn't been for FrontDoor or similar
products made by people who believed in organizations like Fidonet
there would be no Fidonet at all.

I stand by my statement that Fidonet's greatest failing is lacking the
ability to put it's vast amounts of talent to decent gains for our
community by providing at least the bare bones utilities for the users
to contact BBS's.

Thank god people like TIC didn't think they could stand up to
commercial TIC packages (Did they ever make them?).

Ed..

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