Subj : Re: The Documentary... To : Digital Man From : Time Warrior Date : Wed Aug 03 2005 09:22 am From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet To: Digital Man Re: Re: The Documentary... By: Digital Man to Joe Delahaye on Tue Aug 02 2005 09:10 pm > To: Joe Delahaye > Re: Re: The Documentary... By: Joe Delahaye to Digital Man on Tue Aug > 02 2005 10:11 am > > > > including Fidonet, is not even included, or mentioned. Is this > > > > basically correct? > > > No, Tom Jennings (and others iirc) talk quite a bit about FidoNet in R > > > didn't actually *interview* any Europeans or Russians, but it was disc > > > here and there in different contexts (but mostly in the context of Fid > > Ahh, not quite the way it was told to me then. At least one > > complained that he in particular, and none from Europe in general, was > > interviewed even though he responded to the request. The other > > complaint was that the first European IC was also not mentioned. > That's all probably true. I doubt Jason had the resources to fly to Europe/ > Russia. I'm sure there could've been more coverage of non-US BBSes in genera > (there was one Mexican BBS sysop interviewed quite a bit). ALOT was left out, but is that not true of ANY documentary? The History of BBS's and The Internet, dare I say, is even more extensive than the history of any War in world history. You could make documentaries about WWII till you are blue in the face and still not say EVERYTHING that there is to be said. -- .---------------------------------------------------------------. | [TiME WaRRiOR] aka [Dave Kelso] AIM: Twar782 | +o Malkavia BBS | | www : synchsupport.net - malkaviabbs.com - xpresit.net | | www$: josephsjewelersonline.com - preferedinsurance.com | | @: time.warrior@malkaviabbs. com | \______________________________________________________________/ --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76 * Malkavia - Chicago, IL - telnet://malkaviabbs.com --- Synchronet 3.12b-Win32 NewsLink 1.83 .