Subj : Newsgroups?
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Mon Aug 06 2001 09:50 am

 > On Aug 06, 2001 12:18am, BOB SEABORN wrote to PAUL WILLIAMS:
 >
 >>>  And I'm *NOT* alone in this. Those cheap wintel boxes aren't as cheap
 >>> for someone in a similar situation as mine as you would like to think.
 >
 >BS>       I've seen situations where welfare pays for them.
 >
 > Welfare, in the United States, doesn't pay for computers.

      Whatever, if you say so.

 >
 >>>  No possible to it if there's no public net access around or you
 >>> don't know someone who has access.
 >
 >BS>       Like you suggested earlier, there is a library and/or cafe
 >BS>       available, albeit some distance away.
 >
 >BS>       Still boils down to choices.
 >
 > No it doesn't.  This is like telling someone with $50 in their hand and

      No it doesn't.  And no it isn't.

 >
 >BS>       I do a lot of dealings in US$, to the point of maintaining a
 >BS>       US-funds bank account, and a US-based VISA account.
 >
 > Point here?

      his comment about Cdn funds.

 >
 >>>BS>     The T1 does what I want/need for now.  Again, it's a choice that
 >>>BI m
 >>>
 >>>  But it was a choice you could only make because you have the resources
 >>> necessary to allow you to make it.
 >
 >BS>       Immaterial, it's still a choice that *I* made.
 >
 > It's a choice you couldn't make if you didn't have the means to pay the
 > bill.

      I make sure I have the means, I'm perfectly capable of supporting
myself, have the education and (technical) skills to do so.


 >
 > Choices are available within one's ability to pay.  If you can't pay,
 > you don't have choices.

      Ever heard of barter?  sheesh!


 >
 >>>  Methinks you are in abt the same mindset wrt FIDO and the inet as
 >>> Mrs. Santos was wrt the current state of championship wrestling vice
 >>> that of a decade ago.
 >
 >BS>       Dunno what her opinion is/was, but a clown act is still a clown
 >BS>       act, just with stoopider story lines these days.
 >
 > Stoopider???  Word doesn't exist.  Paul is correct however.

      my opinion of professional wrestling, and Paul is not right.


 >
 >>>
 >>>  Spend some time in the echos, including the gated ones.
 >>> Whether you stick around afterward or not is of course....
 >
 >BS>       No thanks, I have a _real_ life.
 >
 > AGain, you made my point in a previous message, to which you have yet
 > to respond.  You don't run a BBS, you don't have users let alone have
 > aninkling as to what interests them and you're completely out of touch
 > with Fidonet in the year 2001.

      Again, you know not of what you say.  You don't know me, you've never
even bothered listening to me, you have your mind made up about me, however 
mistaken you may be, and you won't let anything change it.


 >
 > And, yes, that is YOUR choice!  Unfortunately, that choice, to not have
 > a clue,
 > is being inflicted on your downlinks by passing along hundreds of echos
 > which
 > are dead or on ventilators.


      Here we go again, Andrea's attempts to dictate what others should have
access to.  Maybe leading up to trying to force everyone to use px also?

 >
 > We know you have a real life.  Lest you forget, so do the rest of us.

      Not so it's apparent for some.

 >
 > More to the point, if all of your downlinks moved or disappeared
 > tomorrow, would you retain your node number?

      It's unlikley they would, however,

      1) I'll be in Fido until it no longer is an enjoyment for me.

or

      2) I'll be in Fido forever, just to piss you off.

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