Subj : Fidonet
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Darrell Salter
Date : Wed Oct 24 2001 02:04 pm

Janis Kracht wrote in a message to Stewart Honsberger:

>> Does anyone know were to get your node # and echo feed ....I am Vero
>> bch fl
>> I think net 229 any input would be great

> If you support binkp, I'd be more than happy to feed you. Contact me
> via the e-mail address in my signature and we can talk about details.

 JK> He needs a node number Stewart.  Why not point him to his RC so
 JK> that can be taken care of first... Makes a lot more sense to me. 

Do you mean the RC in his geographic area or the RC of the region he wishes to 
reside in? They may not be the same.

 JK> That way he can connect to whoever he'd like for his
 JK> file/echomail/netmail feed.

Certainly I agree that what is important here is what the sysop wants. If you 
and/or Ross are concerned about this, perhaps you could seek to discover 
whether or not this is a Synchronet sysop and whether he might want to be 
listed in a Net that is populated by Synchronet sysops. I suspect that that may 
be why he mentioned Net229 as we have a lot of them. 

I believe it is important for new sysops to congregate with a group that shares 
interests with them, such as the BBS software they are using. They're likely to 
be more comfortable there rather than to force them to be grouped by geography 
which might not be important to them at all. I also believe that geography is 
rather irrelevant in Zone 1 nowadays. I doubt this is a dialup system, which is 
the only argument for grouping sysops by geography that makes sense, IMO.

Is it your policy to force all new sysops to be grouped into their geographic 
regions? If so, please explain why this makes sense to you, how it will benefit 
Fidonet, and how you intend to enforce this policy.

I'd also like to know if you believe you have a mandate to do this from the 
general Fidonet sysop population. If not, where did you get the notion that you 
could arbitrarily apply policies without consulting us or acquiring our 
permission to do so?

Thanks kindly.

Darrell

darrell@sprk.com, ICQ:31483752

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