Editorial

Hey! What goes on here? I get back from a week in the Bahamas [my first real vacation in YEARS!] and find that some miscreant I never heard of has cracked my password files and perpetrated some kind of cruel hoax on the world of FidoNet. Can't a guy take a break once in awhile? [crikes]

Anyhoo, reports of my demise are remarkably premature, to coin a phrase. [snicker]

Not only am I not dead, but neither is my wife, my son, nor my dog. We are all just fine and the dog says, "Hello, FidoNet." [No, his name is Humbert, not Fido {sorry, Tom}.]

So if you received one of these bogus copies purporting to be FidoNews number 1507, please dispose of it with an anti-virus utility at your earliest convenience. It is a phony put out by somebody I don't even know. This HERE, FidoNews, right here, is the one, the only and the original FidoNews 1507 - accept NO SUBSTITUTES!

The preliminary BS aside, the ZEC1 Election ended this week. I hope everyone took the rare opportunity to take a Sysop-wide vote in a Zonal election. If you didn't, don't bellyache about the choice the ones who did put into office. As is well known, I don't believe in Echomail so I made no predictions or editorial preferences. I wonder who won?

This isn't a very big Issue. Not too many folks complaining this week. There's another brouhaha over in Zone 2 reflected further down but unless there's something coming in late, it's routine.

On another note, I am retiring as the Editor of FidoNews as of this edition. I'm getting pretty busy with various other activities that will be taking the needed time away from doing a decent job with this effort. I've enjoyed the job and hope you've enjoyed and been annoyed at the same time. A newspaper should have no friends as it sez in the Banner. [grin]

To make sure this one has no friends, I am transferring the Editorship of FidoNews to Zorch Frezberg as suggested by the counterfeit 1507. I think that is darn good idea in a sick, twisted way. [snicker]

I'll send him all he needs and you send him all he prints.

I'll be shutting down my FidoNet ops in general, too, for awhile. So if anyone wants to get in touch with me, send to the dreaded Internet at:

cbaker84@digital.net

and i'll get back to you.

Thanks, for everything.

C.B.