Subj : Re: What happened?
To   : Charles Pierson
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Nov 16 2020 10:12 am

-=> Charles Pierson wrote to All <=-

CP> The Fidonet community, and the wider BBS world, has always been to me a
CP> group of people who celebrated new things.

CP> New software, new hardware, new technology, new program languages,
CP> someone somewhere would try it, and see if it could be adapted for our
CP> community.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But ordinarily
CP> people gave it a chance to see how it worked out, offering suggestions
CP> they thought might make it better.

See my other echomail for my thoughts.

CP> Now it seems that people are more stuck in the idea that new is a bad
CP> thing.  You try something new, or even express an idea of something
CP> new, people's reaction is "why?"

I think you're missing my point. New isn't bad, but there's a quality
to Fidonet messaging that is missing in the Telegram side.

CP> It's like people think something new will somehow invalidate almost 40
CP> years of BBS history.  Instead, I would hope that they could see that
CP> it's a celebration of that history, and showing that it is still
CP> relevant in the modern world, and very much still has something to
CP> offer.

I don't agree, and I like the idea of opening Fidonet messaging
through other means, like web interfaces and Telegram. I want to
see it done in a way that preserves the qualities that make Fidonet
messaging unique and it'll all be well. Otherwise, why bother?





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