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> * Origin: SFCBBS - Atlanta - 594-1315 (1:133/114)
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Marshall --
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Someone gave me a copy or your amusing FidoNet history. Alas, it contains
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some rather serious errors.
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--> Regions were defined in March 1985 AT THE SAME TIME as nets, and only,
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strictly only, so that nodes not able to join a net for physical reasons
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would have a "net/node"-like address. The only difference between a net
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host and a region host is that a net host is required to route incoming mail
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to its nodes. A region is not.
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--> All the rot of region hosts other duties were added not by me. And I
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think a lot of is is very, very bad.
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--> Net hosts are REQUIRED to forward mail on to nodes within their own
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net. This was WHY /0's were defined!!!!!!!!!
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> Then, a lone disciple of FidoNet began sending large amounts of material host
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> routed through the regional coordinators for delivery to the network
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> coordinators for delivery to the masses - that was NOT good, and yea verily
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> the Regional Coordinators did complain loudly and vociferously to the
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> almightly TJ who sayeth, "Why art thou troubled, did you not know that you
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> must pay the freight?" - and the regional coordinators did spit fire and
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None of this happened... region hosts were never required, or even asked,
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or suggested, tht they forward mail... whether or not individuals
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misinterpreted this is *another* story... :-)
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> Another disciple of FidoNet was beginning to discover the true joy and
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> ...
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> he was not content to pay the
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> resultant phone bill from the evil AT&T. So reluctant was he, that he began
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> depositing his mail on his hosts system, so that his host would, brightly
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> brightly and with beauty, deliver his personal mail to the far away lands of
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> the other networks. The net coordinator spake unto this disciple saying, "Yea
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> ...
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> not be impure of thought and deed, but the TJ responded saying thus: "Sorry
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> bozo, you are out of your mind - have I not created network coordinators so
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> that people may communicate with you at less cost? Have I not put in place
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> ...
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Again, while people may have sdone all sorts of silly things, it was NEVER
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a design feature. It was never implied nor stated that /0's would do
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anything more than route incoming mail. As a matter of fact, from the very
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start (and I have dox) it was quite plainly stated that everyone is reponsible
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for their outgoing phonecalls. (At the time intra-net costs were assumed to
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be local calls; as long as net/0's arrange for intra-net delivery (call out or
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require pickup, etc) it doesn't matter.)
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So I hope you don't think I'm mad at you. I assume you protrayed what you
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thought the facts were.
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However, could I ask you to update your message/story and repost it? It's
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gotten quoted around quite a bit (it *is* well-written and quite
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funny!) (Though the position of god-hood makes me queasy, personally, it
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also pokes fun at that very phenomenon... a good thing I tell you! :-)
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