Letters to the Editor

[I received this several days ago. This week's Nodelist was ruefully short {again} of other Zone updates including nothing from Zone 4. Ed.]

From: LAM@rivero.newage.com.ar (Luis Manterola)
To: cbaker84@digital.net
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 15:07:34 -0300
Subject: Fidonet in Zone 4
Priority: normal
Organization: P.L.Rivero y Cia. S.A.

Hi Christopher!

Some numbers of Fidonews ago you wrote:

> F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 41 13 October 1997
> ===============================================================
> EDITORIAL
> ===============================================================
> Not much new going on. Zone 4 DID get a new ZC. I saw it in the
> Nodediff on Friday but nobody bothered to let FidoNews know so it
> could be passed on the easy way. Maybe neither the past or the new
> ZC4 ever heard of FidoNews?

I'm sure they perfectly knew about FidoNews, I'll try to explain this in the next lines.

> So, I'll tell you that ZC4 is now:
> Alejandro Alvarez at 4:900/309 in or around Buenos Aires in
> Argentina.
> From his listings, it appears he also an RC and an NC which is
> a lot of hats if you have more than 20 Nodes in your Region or
> Net but that is just speculation since no official notice has
> been forthcoming.

No, he is not RC90. He is just NC900 and was a temporal ZC4. Ariel Nardelli was our ZC4 up to the first days of October. He was a good ZC, he made quite a good job from May 1996 to Sept.97 but he didn't speak english so it was a little bit difficult for him to communicate with you or any other english speaking person.

Nevertheless he managed to have a translator-friend who helped him to participate in some echoes as REGCON.

Then he left Fidonet for personal causes and named A. Alvarez as a temporal ZC4. Alejandro probably didn't tell you at the first time of this change because of his temporal condition, he immediately organized elections in which I was chosen as the new ZC. I should appear as ZC in the next diff. [He didn't in Zone 1. Ed.]

> One can only hope this ZC4 will be more responsive than the
> last ZC4. Congratulations [or commiserations as appropriate],
> Alejandro! Feel free to use FidoNews to tell us everything. [grin]

You can count on me to be permanently in touch with you for any event that happens in our zone.

Best Regards.

Luis Manterola - 4:4/0 - 4:900/525
Mailto:lam@rivero.newage.com.ar

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From: DAVID_BOUCHER@prodigy.com ( D BOUCHER)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 15:34:04, -0500
To: cbaker84@digital.net
Subject: Fidonews...?

Hi Chris,

Do you know if there is an echo where I can learn more about running a 'point system'? ...or maybe a FAQ that someone has put together for people wanting to run a 'point system'?

Thanks for your help! (And thanks for your great work on the Fidonews.. .)

--
Dave in Boston

(For E-mail, mailto:David_Boucher@Prodigy.com?subject=fromEMCsig )

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