Subj : Fidonet
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Stewart Honsberger
Date : Wed Oct 24 2001 01:00 pm

Hello Janis!

Oct 24 2001 16:03, Janis Kracht wrote to Stewart Honsberger:

 >> Therein lies the difference between your and our philosophies. If/when 
 >> he contacts me, I'll get him set up with a node number and a feed all at
 >>  once. One-stop shopping.

 JK> No, not my philosophy.. it just makes sense since he could be pointed 
 JK> to a variety of sites, or given a regional independant node immediately 
 JK> and a feed if he wants to pick up there.

Why? He asked for a feed and a node number. Why complicate the situation?

 >> Why bother with a middle-man? Far too time consuming.

 JK> As usual, you assume too much.

What am I assuming? Using your proposed method, he'll have to contact atleast 
one other person. Using my proposed method, he has to contact one.

If this is a FidoNet newbie, he won't want to be innundated with titles and 
politics - he just wants a feed.

 JK> People in R12, when contacted by an out of region node, contact RCs 
 JK> like Ross anyway before giving out a node number in Canadian R12 - 
 JK> that's just what Dave Hamilton does, for instance. 

Funny, my name doesn't even rhyme with "Hamilton".

 JK> I'm glad he does :)

That's his perrogative.

[Stewart Honsberger] [blackdeath@softhome.net] [http://blackdeath.2y.net/]

   "In /1984/, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain.
    In /Brave New World/, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
    In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
    feared that what we love will ruin us." -- Neil Postman

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