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Original Message Date: 08 Aug 92 10:14:24
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From: Frank Gaude on 1:203/8888
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
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Subj: Technology...
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^AMSGID: 1:203/8888@fidonet.org 6e8a1873
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Hi, Tom! Don't know if you remember me from the CP/M days. I ran Echelon, �
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Inc., along with Richard Conn and ZCPR3 and Z-System replacements for �
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CP/M. Had about 78 Z-Nodes ready to connect to FidoNet in 1985 or '86 then �
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sold the company just before it happened.
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Anyway, I came across a msg on BCSNET echo that left me wondering. Here it �
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is for your information:
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Boston Computer Net # 144 Date: 07-25-92, 17:11
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Left by: MIKE LABBE
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Sent to: ROBERT GORRILL Status: Public
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Topic: BCSNET Rcvd: No
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IF BCSNet was to expand itself to some of the newer networking �
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technologies and major professional nets as well, it would be very �
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successful and used. Networks such as Ilink, RIME, etc., have much to �
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offer and seem to attract a more professional crowd than some of the fido �
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echoes. If this base was to be shared with some of those networks, it �
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would only distribute it to more folks in more areas. The other networking �
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technologies have some other advantages such as restricted (semi private) �
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mail, reference numbers, FAST turnaround (usually 12 - 24 hours), and �
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reliability. Perhaps its time for BCS to re-think this and consider �
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modernization. Of course Im not suggesting we do away with the fido links, �
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just make use of some of the newer technology as well - so more users can �
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be included. I've been networking about 7 of my 9 years as sysop, and only �
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in 1992 did I finally opt to install the fido technology. We would have �
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been part of BCSNET long ago if it had been available through some of the �
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other channels (QWK, PCRelay/PostLink, etc.). I recall mentioning this �
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years ago at some of the fido sysop meetings in Boston, but it fell to �
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deaf ears at the time. My opinion for what its worth: Mike Labbe, BCS �
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Providence SysOp.
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--- DB B1073/004201
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* Origin: Eagles Nest BCS Providence, RI Satellite 401-732-5290 �
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(1:323/500)
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Mike Labbe is sysop of Eagles Nest... Robert Gorrill is either president �
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of Boston Computer Society or moderator of BCSNET echo area.
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Thought you might like to know what some are saying... expecially in the �
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old Boston Computer Society, a society that was of the highest regard by �
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all at the start of microcomputers.
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Regards,
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Frank at Lake Tahoe (retired, but alive!)
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Original Message Date: 11 Aug 92 15:59:18
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From: Frank Gaude on 1:203/8888
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
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Subj: Technology...
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^AMSGID: 1:203/8888@fidonet.org 700fb14b
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> Thanks for the historical reference... I was unclear
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> on it though, are
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> they now using FidoNet and about to move onward, or
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> are they using
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> something proprietary/older and moving into FidoNet?
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They, BCSNET, are on FidoNet now, but some think it is "old technology" �
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and want to attach to "modern" RIME or ILink.
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I've been on RIME as an echo/message user and think it
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is a well-run business of about 280 echos. The only thing I think such a �
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net has that Fido does not is a clear msg interface to the user. They �
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allow the offline reader tagline to remain and a three-dash tearline (no �
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mail processor ad here) followed by an origin line. That's it!
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Fido should not allow all the "junk" they do. The RE: added that some �
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editors or mail handlers add should be done away with. All this appears as �
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less than professional--amateur can be better than professional--in the �
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eyes of today's computer users. RIME looks good. ((I'm a graphic designer �
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by trade, until I retired, after I sold Echelon to Steve Makulka (Apple) �
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and Ken Oshmann (ROLM Corp), I turned to "visual communications".))
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Maybe you think FidoNet is growing fast enough. My feeling that if we can �
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make it look better, we should. Membership can be controlled in other �
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ways. I don't want people saying we are "old technology."
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> (I lived in Boston, and never joined BCS; I went with
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> NECS New England
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> Comp. Soc., which was more specifically techie and
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> smaller. They ran a
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> HDOS-based BBS on a H19 if I remember right...!)
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I love Boston and the general area... home of our country! That's why I �
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carry BCSNET and chat with the locals.
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I also love the Sierras!
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Keep up the good work...
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Regards,
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Frank, high in the mountains overlooking Lake Tahoe
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