Editorial

Some people believe that disagreement is personal. I've never understood that but I do acknowledge the trait exists in some folks.

There isn't anything personal in my observations from FidoNews 1405 regarding the substance of Gary Gilmore's 'lard ass' article in that Issue. His opinion was aired without fail and without editing. If it were personal, here, would it have been published? His article and my response are part of the public record. If he finds that unfair, that's his problem. Isn't it? The readers can decide between the views and send in their own articles.

While he was railing against the size of FidoNews, I never mentioned his own contribution to the size of the Nodelist with 5 separate entries for the same telephone number. Now, that might have been considered personal, too, but it would just have been a fact like the other points I made. [grin]

Facts are not personal. FidoNews IS for communicating and he is doing it again in this Issue. More power to him! He is completely incorrect about it being personal at this end. Could he be projecting? Nah. We disagree. No big deal. No insults - thinly or thickly veiled. I do get the last word in a sense but that, too, is transitory until the next Issue comes out. Them's the breaks in the real world.

I'd like to remind everyone that there is an official FidoNews Echo for discussion of FidoNews ops and articles. It is available on the Zone 1 Backbone as FIDONEWS and also gets around to other Zones last I heard. There you can get some nearly real-time responses rather than this 1-2 week lag in the published FidoNews. It has no size constraints, either.

Meanwhile, the motto in the banner sez it all. [chuckle]

In other news, there is a Guest Editorial in this Issue. It was received via the U.S. Mail from a former FidoNet Sysop who still follows the doings of FidoNet but has an ongoing problem with local Coordinators and does not have a Node number at present. It speaks for itself. Any responses will be received by the author when he reads the FidoNews containing them. It's a LONG one by Editorial standards. I hope that doesn't cause any apoplexy out there. We publish what we get the way we get it.

The WebRing [http://www.webring.org. [faulty URL [jb 4/25/01]]) Update: http://dir.webring.yahoo.com/rw] is finally back on the new server and everyone who has been sending me mail asking about not being able to get an answer may now proceed to sign up their FidoNet-related web pages again. There are currently 5 sites connected to the ring and it's ready for the rest of you. [See 1402 for details.]

C.B.