Subj : perl files for fidonet
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Russ Johnson
Date : Sun Jun 10 2001 07:26 am

>> The web (which is actually only part of the 'net) started off as a
>> broadcast only medium, but it is and will continue to evolve into a
>> much better venue.
>I doubt it.  The www is comercialism at it's worst and will continue to be so.
> It is like the shopping network on TV except on computers.  Mostly crap out
>there.  I use a browser every once and awhile but it doesn't see all that much
>action seeing that anything I feel a need to keep an eye on doesn't change tha
> much over time.  email and ftp are the mainstays here.

Well, since I frequent several sites on a regular basis, I know that it's 
getting better. 

Yes, there will probably always be the commercialism on some sites. The best 
thing about it is that you can choose where to go. 

I personally think that TV in general is getting really bad. Every station has 
to proclaim itself in the lower corners of the screen. Sometimes, there are two 
overlays down there. On top of that, most sports events are starting to have 
headers and footers with the sponsers ads in them. 

> I used to.  I don't believe I am typical either.  The thing is that I don't
> believe that Sourceforge will improve that situation any.

The idea behind us putting it on sourceforge is to get other people intereseted 
in putting up a fido based site. We've been hemorraging sysops for several 
years now. If we can get what we have brought up to todays processes, then we 
can interest the new sys-admins out there. We'll need to show what they can do, 
and show that it's sort of like the distributed projects out there. Kinda like 
SETI, only for messages. It's better than news, because there's no spam. If 
more people have access to it, then we'll see an increase in message volume. 
While I agree that that's not always a good thing, in this case, I believe it 
is. 

> Yep.  I can count on one hand how many times I've been to Sourceforge in a
> month and only because of a search for something specific that led me there.
> As for ftp Slackware is there so I am forced to deal with that.  Oh well.

Obviously, we'll need to toot our own horn as well. Maybe we can win back some 
of the old sysops that have moved on to the internet, by showing them that we 
can have our better systems, and fido too. 

Russ

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