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From: randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush)
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Subject: Fidonet (was Re: the USENET problems)
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Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 14:10:47 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 11 14:10:47 1987
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Organization: Oregon Software, Portland OR
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Keywords: organization governing bodies
Summary: the grass is always greener
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Unfortunately, Fidonet's 'governing body', IFNA, met with the same kind of
warm, friendly, cooperative attitude that such suggestions meet on usenet.
Entire echo conferences (=newsgroups) died from the flaming and stupidity.
Only about 20% of the >1500 public Fidonet nodes have even joined IFNA.

Note that the FidoNews one reads on usenet is the weekly newsletter put
together by the constructive folk.  The trashers prefer to occupy net.bandwidth
with rumors, innuendo, ad hominem attack, and the normal flaming.  As Fidonet
users tend to be more amateur than those on usenet (no implication meant in
either direction), the Fidonet trashers usually don't even make interesting
reading.

The stalwart just try to keep the mail/news flowing, respond seriously to
the more serious and well thought out criticism, and try to prevent technical
net.chaos.
-- 
Randy Bush, Compiler Group, Oregon Software, Portland Oregon (503) 245-2202
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