Subj : anyone out there?
To   : Scott Royall
From : Mike Jackson
Date : Sun Jul 02 2000 04:16 pm

Hello Scott.

02 Jul 00 14:59, Scott Royall wrote to Mike Jackson:

SR> Hmmm. I wonder why your message didn't clear the gate.

I honestly don't know. There was one node that was misposting a lot of messages 
(1000+), maybe it was caught up in that?

SR> I could get really philosophical and observe that death is only a
SR> transition. :) The point is that the next stage won't be anything like
SR> Fidonet as we know it.

I agree. It won't be as it has in the past. It could be better. If fido had the 
exposer that the internet offers it could grow bigger than ever. When the 
average Joe Sysop has his computer on the Internet things will change "IF" we 
make it change. The next generation BBS won't be TTY/Ansi, but rather an HTML 
BBS Platform. Think about it Scott... It's almost the exact (ideal) situation 
you posted in a message to me several years ago (almost...kinda...sorta)

No phone lines... just pure bandwidth... taste the broadbandy goodness...

No busy signals... No "I wanna get on the net but I have a caller online..."

From a sysop's standpoint it's digital heaven!


SR> Well, I think that's a matter of perspective. Our selection is already
SR> miniscule by Internet standards. Sadly, we seem to have fallen to
SR> where we're no longer self-sustaining.

I agree. We are no where close to the size of the newgroups. There are a few 
newsgroups that I have found tolerable. However, if your brave enough to post 
in there and use your real email address... you have just opened the spam 
gates.

SR> That's pretty much what I have in mind. Things would go much smoother
SR> if it all ran on one platform. However, I have yet to even get Warp 4
SR> to install on Conch so things don't look good.

If I may ask... (looking nervous) what are you running Conch on?

SR> How long do you keeo messages? :)

Actually I just relinked to this echo. I was connected to the whole backbone 
back when I watched the traffic. I unlinked from most of the echo's for a few 
months and recently relinked to the echo's I like.

For the record... I save between 500 and 1000 messages depanding on the 
activity of the echo.

Mike

.... AD&D Famous Last Words: "Relax. Nothing ever happens at first level."
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