Subj : MMTerm?
To   : Ed Williams
From : Jim Hanoian
Date : Wed Apr 04 2001 08:49 am

-=> Ed Williams wrote to Jim Hanoian <=-

 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.

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

That's just the point... people don't need a comm program anymore.
Beyond a browser, they might need a only a telnet tool.  There ARE 
freeware telnet clients available.  As I said before, all you have 
to do is look.

I'm very sorry you think that I'm being very small minded.  Seems to
me that expecting to be handed a free app that exactly meets all of
your requirements is quite a bit more small minded than my position
of accepting what you can get free, and paying for it if you feel
the need otherwise.

Further, the future of Fido is not in dial-up BBSing, it is BBSing
that takes advantage of the internet.  Only by riding the freely
available highway does the dream of joining us together become a 
reality.  Some say that the internet was the death of BBSing, but
look at the boards that are available via telnet sitting on the 
end of a cable modem.  Look at the file transfers and accessibility
that everybody enjoys.  The problem, as I see it, came from the 
us versus them fight that developed in the early meetings... if
we had learned to live together in the beginning, we wouldn't have
the problems we have now.

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

I've connected to a dial-up BBS using the terminal program that
comes with Windows, and I've connected using the telnet program
that comes with Windows.  So what's the problem?


.... Jim Hanoian, Augusta, Maine, USA
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