Subj : Re: What happened?
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Nov 16 2020 10:12:00

-=> Charles Pierson wrote to All <=-

 CP> The Fidonet community, and the wider BBS world, has always been to me a
 CP> group of people who celebrated new things.

 CP> New software, new hardware, new technology, new program languages,
 CP> someone somewhere would try it, and see if it could be adapted for our
 CP> community.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But ordinarily
 CP> people gave it a chance to see how it worked out, offering suggestions
 CP> they thought might make it better.

 See my other echomail for my thoughts.

 CP> Now it seems that people are more stuck in the idea that new is a bad
 CP> thing.  You try something new, or even express an idea of something
 CP> new, people's reaction is "why?"

 I think you're missing my point. New isn't bad, but there's a quality
 to Fidonet messaging that is missing in the Telegram side.

 CP> It's like people think something new will somehow invalidate almost 40
 CP> years of BBS history.  Instead, I would hope that they could see that
 CP> it's a celebration of that history, and showing that it is still
 CP> relevant in the modern world, and very much still has something to
 CP> offer.

 I don't agree, and I like the idea of opening Fidonet messaging
 through other means, like web interfaces and Telegram. I want to
 see it done in a way that preserves the qualities that make Fidonet
 messaging unique and it'll all be well. Otherwise, why bother?





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