Subj : Re: www.fidonet.io
To   : nathanael culver
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Wed Mar 13 2019 08:51:00

(forwarded from FIDONEWS)

-=> nathanael culver wrote to Joacim Melin <=-

 JM> I tried to help, do some good for the network, and I will continue to do
 JM> so, with or without your support.

 nc> This! I am brand spanking new to Fidonet, and I gotta concur
 nc> fidonet.org is a disaster. Nothing screams "Fidonet is dead!" louder
 nc> than a webpage dated 2003 full of dead links. And I love the
 nc> "historical fidonet.fidonet.org web site sn an history of FidoNet
 nc> (1992)" link. Now surely THAT doesn't say, "We're living in the past."

Thank you for posting this - I'd posted a similar sentiment earlier, asking
people to consider the perspective from a new sysop's point of view.
Hearing this from you helps confirm my thoughts.

I understand there are some technical dependencies on the back-end of
fidonet.org, but surely replacing the current, dated, dead-linked page with
even a Word HTML document with live html links wouldn't take that long to
do.

 nc> And that "About Joining Fidonet" page is clear: "You wanna join
 nc> Fidonet? We'd rather you just go away, but if you insist go chase down
 nc> this, search for that, and try not to bother us too much, 'K?"

Yeah, that sounds like personal editorializing to me, and certainly not
something all of us support. I would have a link to policy4 in the HTML and
quote the relevant part 2.2 in the page - and skip the editorializing.





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