Subj : Re: Still holding the fort.
To   : ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
From : JOHN FITZGERALD
Date : Thu Aug 15 2013 13:01:54

-> Hi, JOHN FITZGERALD!
-> I read your message from 12.08.2013 10:56
-> 
->  JF> Wow, you guys are still here. Last time I logged on here I
->  JF> think Peter Brady was still with us. What about ole John
->  JF> Wilson? Is he still around?
->  JF> I still have my old rig tucked away in a box. A 286, 512k ram,
->  JF> 2400 baud modem, 5 1/4 inch disks, and monochrome screen (Gotta
->  JF> love those green letters) and 40mb, full height, hard disk,
->  JF> which I sometimes use as a boat anchor. :-)
->  JF>
->  JF>
->  JF> If you guys wanna lock horns on some hot topics where the
->  JF> debate is viewed by 100s, possibly 1000s, go to Wikipedia and
->  JF> check out the talk pages on some of the pages like
->  JF>
->  JF> '2003 invasion of Iraq',
->  JF> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2003_invasion_of_Iraq)
->  JF>
->  JF> 'Separation of church and state' :
->  JF> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Separation_of_church_and_stat
->  JF> e)
->  JF> In any case it's nice to know not everything is washed away by
->  JF> the tides of change.
-> 
-> The quotation system of forums are so poor and miserable; it makes
-> impossible to have a long deep discussions as people have had in
-> Fidonet. Going to Web forums is degradation for a  discussion. Well,
-> probably such a thing is possible in Usenet if you have a good NNTP
client.
-> 
-> Just look at my answer "Re: Clandestine activity is a holy cow of
-> democracy" from August 6. The text in the message itself is piece of
-> art! ;-)


Nonsense. The forum works fine for 99% of the people who participate. Every
message is signed by the user and each new entry is indented from the one
above it, so only the idiots who need road signs every ten feet are left
confused. Piece of art? Are we having a discussion or admiring text?
 
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