Subj : Fidonet
To   : Darrell Salter
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Wed Oct 24 2001 02:59 pm

Hi Darrell,

As a famous Canadian used to say:

Noted.

Take care,
Janis

> 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.

>> He needs a node number Stewart.  Why not point him to his RC so
>> 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.

>> That way he can connect to whoever he'd like for his
>> 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 ma
> 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 share
>interests with them, such as the BBS software they are using. They're likely t
>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 i
> 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 benefi
> 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 yo
> could arbitrarily apply policies without consulting us or acquiring our
> permission to do so?

> Thanks kindly.

> Darrell

> darrell@sprk.com, ICQ:31483752

> Net229 HomePage             Mirror Sites
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> http://net229.darktech.org  http://net229.dyndns.org
> http://net229.bbsnet.ca

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