Subj : ERRORS in Route List!
To   : Jack Yates
From : Carl Austin Bennett
Date : Sat May 12 2001 04:34 am

 TC> But it goes to show many people want in they just cant get listed...
 TC> I have kept track this year we have helped 18 systems get node numbers
 TC> or in some cases re-treads back from the dead...

 JY> This is sad.  Not that you're helping 18 systesm, but that you can't 
 JY> get help from others.

Increasingly common.

Can't sing about how everything's up to date in Kansas City if both NC's out 
there have left the network without updating their segments to reflect this.

Even when there is a computer and a modem at the other end of the line, there 
are some very unresponsive NC's in many regions who hold the position just 
because the only other alternative was to fold their local nets entirely.

Never did understand why anyone would incur the cost of putting a Fido node 
online just to walk away with it on autopilot, but there are NCs like that.

There are also systems that never reconnected after we lost key mail movers.
Losing someone of the calibre of JohnS did more damage than anyone realised.

....Apathy takes its toll. Please deposit exact change.

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