Subj : Re: FidoGazette Regrowing Fidonet
To   : Allen Prunty
From : Nick Andre
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:02

On 23 Feb 17  20:28:29, Allen Prunty said the following to Nick Andre:

AP> It's all dedication... and you do a lot more than just hub the mail.  Stop
AP> selling yourself short.  You are truly dedicated and have made your mark in
AP> Fidonet's history... with Dbrige, your hub, and I think you may now be the
AP> curator of Renegade.

For many reasons, I stuck with a particular version of Renegade, obtained the 
source code, and made my own modifications and bug fixes. The newer versions 
that were "officially" released were not up to my expectations. Reflecting 
now, it really wasn't anyones fault, but at the time I made a big stink about 
some of the direction it was heading in.

The Titantic Board was the "official" Renegade support site and thats been
shut down for quite some time now. The Sysop moved on to that pesky real-life.
I like to think I became friends with him and we used to trade some creative 
"digs" at eachother. Every now and then he'll call my board to say hello.

Others moved on to Synchronet or Mystic... I'm a huge fan of Mystic but my 
system can never, ever change from Renegade. I'll mandate that in my will.

As far as I know I'm now the last remaining Renegade BBS system in the world.

 > But c'mon... if this was 1995 and a BBS spammed in every echo, I guarantee
 > you the precious NAB would cry bloody murder.  So if it wasn't okay then,
 > why is okay now? I thought people loved Fido because its not Usenet?
AP> 
AP> But it's 2017 now... and unlike 1995 when you could cut off a node and not
AP> think of it every node counts now.  Plus, like you, Doc has a lot of histor
AP> he's been around quite a long time.  Perhaps we can chalk this one up to a
AP> momentary lapse in judgement.  Fidonet, like it or not, has become a bit mo
AP> personal than it was in the past... in 1995 we could just cut off a misbeha
AP> node without a second thought.  Now, as in the case of Alan Ianson, when
AP> someone disappears it stings.

No arguements there... 

Nick

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)

.