Subj : editorial dreams
To   : Sean Dennis
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Jun 13 2020 17:58:00

Hello Sean!

** On Friday 12.06.20 - 07:07, Sean Dennis wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> I thought the FG was solely a project of JK.   Not even an "Editors
 AA>> Emeriti" like in the Snooze, or some kind of mention with your name

 SD> Nope.  She stole it from me along with Thom LaCosta's help.

Well.. that's just nasty, and not right.


 SD> She has a different story, of course, but I and others know the
 SD> truth.  The FG is now just an empty shell, used for Janis' political
 SD> bully pulpit.

The FG seemed to be off to a good start and showed a fine promise to be
much much better than the Snooze.  But then it petered out fairly quickly.
For me, the addition of recipes is what finally clinched the deal to drop
it. And the one-sided political commentary is not a good fit for a FTN- 
community newsletter.


 SD> I thought of doing my own newsletter again but Fidonet
 SD> isn't worth it anymore.   ..The Micronet Times. :D

It's a very good opportunity to present something that the FG and FN are  
not.   You could demonstrate your vision of what a newsletter ought to be.

I don't know what your ideas for content would be, but in addition to  
supporting submissions from readers, you could single-handedly provide a  
sections for "Best of echomail this week" to highlight an interesting/ 
funny topic that is surfacing elsewhere on an othernet, or a book review  
related to tech/computers, or a "The Rest of the story.." section that  
fills in the gaps that FTN history has left out or forgotten, "New Ascii  
art for the week",  oooh.. there is so much possible. You don't have to  
duplicate the Software Lists or file source lists, but could have  
something that those lists lack.

More people would be inclined to read a newsletter of the community it  
represents than hunting and waiting for conversations to pop up in  
echomail. The newsletter could help spawn the conversations that people  
are waiting for.


  ../|ug

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