Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Frank Vest
Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 11:06 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Hello Jason,

textfiles@gmail.com wrote:
> Jason Scott, BBS Documentary director here. Saw some nice discussions
> and debates and, well, accusations. Thought I'd jump in here.
> 
> First of all, I want to thank, again, Rob Swindell and Frank Vest, who
> both opened their homes to me and my equipment, knowing nothing of my
> "work" before then. In Rob's case, I showed up many hours late (I
> misjudged travel time from San Francisco to Los Angeles) and in
> Frank's, well, there I was jamming a lot of lights and cameras into his
> home, and after his marked reticence to being interviewed at all. I
> appreciate both of your allowances for this, and of course for the
> hundreds of others I interviewed.

I just couldn't see where I was important compared to Tom Jennings, DM 
and others that were big players. :) I'm happy that You finally pushed 
me into the interview.

To be honest, I was impressed that you got Tom Jennings to give you an 
interview! I'd heard that he pushed away from most attempts at anything 
to do with BBS or Fidonet.

I do want to know when we can get access to these full interviews. I'd 
like a copy of mine and maybe some others. Please let us know.

> So keep talking.

I don't think that will be a problem. :)

For those that were not interviewed and for those that might have had a 
different experience:

Jason contacted me via e-mail. Having recently left the post of Fidonews 
Editor and not being too happy with things in general, I was not in a 
good mood to have some stranger contact me because I was a former 
Fidonews Editor. :)

I remember asking Jason at some point if he was going to see this thing 
through or if it was going to be some "work in progress" thing that 
would die on the vine. He assured me that he had a compulsion to see 
this thing through. That's one thing that got me to finally say yes.

In case some might not know it, Jason was the interviewer, sound man, 
cameraman and all the other parts of the crew. What you see on the 
documentary is not the result of a big production crew... or even a 
small one. It's the result of one man with a desire to present the "fore 
runner of the Internet" and a compulsion to see it through to the end. 
For that alone, the man deserves a round of applause. I would have 
failed in the first month... if I lasted that long.

At any rate, I'm glad that I was in there and I hope that others will 
view the documentary and give it a chance. It might be missing some 
things and there may be parts that you don't like or think are right, 
but it is better than anything I've seen so far and all things 
considered, worth the cost. IMHO.


Regards,
Frank
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