Subj : RE: anyone out there? To : All From : royall@hal-pc.org Date : Mon Jul 03 2000 12:24 pm From: "Scott Royall" Subject: RE: anyone out there? 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? Actually, yours truly simply failed to complete some changes in his LAN. Your post was merely detained. :) 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! Yes, it is what I forecasted years ago. Therein lies the probable downfall of Fidonet. Fidonet evolved around the goal of sharing mail with far-off locales at minimal long distance cost. That need drove sysops, a rather independent lot, to work within an organization. In contrast, "distance" has virtually no meaning on the Internet so it makes no sense to bounce the same mail to other "BBS" sites. In fact, the sysops are likely to want their sites to be as different as possible to draw users. Looks lie pre-Fido to me. 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? Warp 3. 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." -- |Fidonet: Mike Jackson 1:106/4725.1 |Internet: Mike.Jackson@106-4725-1.conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. -- |Fidonet: ECHO |Internet: scott@conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. -- |Fidonet: royall@hal-pc.org |Internet: scott@conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. --- # Origin: (1:106/357.99) * Origin: ConchGate (1:106/357.0) .