Hello everybody!

Thanks for the replies so far. It gives me a better idea (including the replies and answers on other messages) about how some nominees look at their nomination.

For me the difficulty is in: we are using very 'old' policies/docs which are not being updated (for whatever reason), there are people referring to those documents as: these are the guidelines check it. But when there is something not fitting what is written/stated in those documents .. (similar if not equal to standards etc.) It's neglected or not followed and when someone is writing that it is not according the policies/standards or 'rules' it's not appropriate to tell ..

I understand fidonet can run almost unattended for many days, weeks, months if not years so our technology has been proven, so as time goes by someone looks at an agenda and thinks.. whoops .. we have to do an election.. what do we have to do ... without thinking about possible changes beforehand ..

So the thing is: as there are many forms of how we can exchange messages: fidonet, netmail, e-mail, signal, whatsapp, phone etc.. a lot of 'rules' could be revised or get an addendum easily if we want.

I think everyone can agree on that, but as long as everyone is holding or pointing to those 'old' documents and not willing to revise them or create an addendum to it so that it fits the time we are in now, I can understand that people are pinpointing to them.

btw I am happy there are still people pinpointing to 'issues' to make sure we will be able to keep communicating with each other through fidonet.

Should fidonet be enhanced? Why not? as long as existing tools can keep working and have no issues with new features I can accept that myself. But for me:

I left Fidonet because there came other technologies what made it possible to communicate differently with each other

- I exchanged fidonet for an dialup internet connection to be able to communicate faster by using
e-mail, usenet, mailinglists
- I exchanged my dialup for a DSL connection as my line became faster and be online 24/7
- I exchanged my DSL connection for Cable to get more speed
- I exchanged a mailinglist (I had an mailinglist with +800 users about one topic with more than 120K messages during the years I ran it) for facebook

I started that mailinglist with UUCP, GIGO which was deeply connected with my BBS. When onelist came along I migrated the mailinglist .. oh onelist evolved into egroups, into yahoogroups into groups.io ..

- I exchanged facebook for Whatsapp, Signal, Tiktok, Instagram

End of 2024 I came back to fidonet as I was interested to see what had become of it.
and let me tell you: it was a struggle to find out what I had to do to become a node (or point) again.
Let alone decide or find out what software I could still use (or wanted to use).


Being a sysop for many years with POTS, ISDN running a 4 node mailer under OS/2 with Desqview and some home-made tools, my BBS was mainly running on local communication with lots of local echomail between the 60 to 70 points I had in that time ..

For me Fidonet is nostalgic a different way on how to connect to each other. The way we communicate is no different than groups in Facebook, mailinglists or what kind of mass communication there is.

I've seen feedback to my question where I give a thumbs up for it and some feedback I think, mwah ..

this message gives maybe some people more information about how a normal user is thinking about fidonet and gives a glimpse about what he might think about FTSC.

Again thanks.

Dennis


... I'll fix it as soon as I figure out how you broke it.
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