Subj : Newsgroups? To : mark lewis From : Ross Cassell Date : Wed Jul 25 2001 10:33 am Hello mark! 25 Jul 01 15:41, you wrote to me: GG>>>> Do we -really- need to keep importing newsgroups as echoes? ml>>> how do those who do not have access to the i'net access any ml>>> newsgroups? RC>> By getting Internet Access? ml> that would be known as a catch-44... that's two catch-22's <> ml> no i'net access means none... nine... notta... niet... But no one in Fidonet while performing a Fidonet capacity is a ISP. I am not, you are not, and so on. We need to ask, who is asking for this gated content, the users or the people wanting to gate, are we answering a demand or inventing or imagining one? I see Dale Ross's gating by and large a productive endeavor, he has been selective and focused and very careful. The echoes Sean Rima brings in, welp, even though I have a Linux Box of my own now, I dont have the time to sift through all that, not to mention SuSe didnt impress me. Dales echoes have a flow that can be digested in one sitting without sifting through hundreds of messages of nonsense. Lets face it there is a difference between the mentality of a newsgroup user and that of a Fidonet poster, you see alot on one liners coming from the newsgroup users. But Mark, seriously XML ??????????????????????? A its to Microsoft and B way advanced beyond basic web authoring. == Ross http://www.the-estar.com ross@the-estar.com or rcassell@home.com ICQ = 5305939 --- GoldED/W32 3.0.1 * Origin: The Eastern Star [Mail Hub] - 864.573.7069 (1:18/500) .