Subj : FidoNews 39:02 [02/08]: Editorial
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From : FidoNews Robot
Date : Mon Jan 10 2022 00:09:41

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                            EDITORIAL
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                  The Fidonews Saga

The first Fidonews issue was published the 4th of December 1984.
The first couple of months Tom Jennings was the editor. Then Thom
Henderson took over. Another nine months later single editor era
ended, for the time being, and a team of editors produced our ezine.

   This lasted for about ten years, when Donald Tees became single
editor. But just after four months, he went AWOL and no Snooze was
published for over a month (so if you search for FNEWSD23, 24, 25 or
26 and don't find anything, now you know why) until Christopher Baker
took over.

   From thereon it was once again a single editor enterprise (AFAIK).

   Between the 1st of July 1996 and the 14th of January 2002 (almost
to the day exactly 20 years ago) six editors passed by, giving an
average of less than one year on the post. That day was also the day
that the first issue with this editor was published.

   The names of the first 13 editors can be found at the end of the
Fidonews.

              -  =  o  =  0  =  o  =  -

   As a side note, reading the above mentioned part of the Snooze, I
realized that the Staff listing needed a long overdue update. Fixed.

   Hopefully this means that fewer people will write to the editor
complaining about inaccuracies in the lists. The proper info *is*
after all to be found in the first lines of the lists, if you care
to read it.



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