Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: Fido type networks
From:    Surgical Steel #1 @129
Date:    Thu Feb 11, 2021 06:05

-=> MORGUL #1 @8315 wrote to ALL <=-

 M#@> They still aren't making it easy to join their networks.  Looking over
 M#@> the nodelist, I'm still not sure how to tell my system *where* to send
 M#@> email to just to get started.  The WWIV docs are retty straight forward
M#@> on setting things up, but the Fidonet nodelist looks even more
 M#@> confusing than it did 30 years ago when I first joined it.

Okay, I feel *so* much better knowing it's not just me feeling that way.

The difference really feels like the difference between traditional publishing
contracts and the ones I had as a publisher.  The former were obscure masses of
legalese that obscured meaning (e.g. FidoNet docs) and mine were *much*
simpler, clearer, and straightforward (WWIVnet docs).

Of course, my gig was also about lowering the barriers to entry and informing
authors/editors of what their rights (as well as obligations) were, and nothing
more or less.



Steven / Surgical Steel

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