Subj : Re: where did it all go?
To   : alt.bbs.allsysop
From : rhythmnp@aol.comSTOPSPAM (RhythmNp)
Date : Thu Jul 10 2003 04:42 am

>This boils down to that A-B conversation thing again. People could have hit
>their enter key. The specific people who said no I did not ask again, I was
>asking the others who had not yet said anything. I figured asking them in
>DoveNet was easier than internet emailing everyone in DoveNet seperately.

But right off the bat, the *moderator* of DoveNet told you that he was not
interesting in having DoveNet bases gated.  So I don't see why there was any
need for additional A-B conversations with other people about the topic.  The
moderator said no, that should have been the end of the conversation, yet you
continued to make posts about gating DoveNet.

> How many DoveNet Sysops would have gone out of their way to
>join the network had it NOT been pre installed?

Probably a large number.  It's the Synchronet support network, after all.  It
makes sense to have it pre-installed.  Half of its message bases involve
Synchronet support and Synchronet development.  I don't understand exactly what
your problem with DoveNet is.  The fact that it's 95% pre-installed makes it
easy for sysops to get Synchronet support quickly and easily; it's a huge
convenience.  And if a sysop *doesn't* want DoveNet, they don't need to enable
it, and in fact can delete all remnants of its configuration from their system
by hitting the delete key once on an SCFG message base config menu.

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