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ECHO TALK
David E. Waters on the Real Problem

ECHO TALK
Food for thought from Fido's echomail.
Purloined without permission by D Myers

David E. Waters on The Real Problem:

There is no depth in Fido. For instance, there is no school for future Sysops. When we all die, thats it it's over. Nobody is trained to take over any of the "Jobs" in Fido. How many know the politics of how to get mail from N.A. to Austraila? (Show of hands please.)

Sysoping will very quickly become a lost art like "canning" (you know those jars our Grandmothers had full of stuff when we were kids). The unreleased version of Trade Wars is a prime example, it ties directly through a server and does not need a BBS to run.

I know I am a "Johnny come lately" and most folks figure I do not whats going on and for the most part they are right. I am also a locksmith and there are no new people (Kids, teenagers & young adults) training behind us at least not enough to keep open all the shops that are out there now. Which means the fewer there are the resource gets more expensive (think about that the next you call 2-3 locksmiths for an estimate, what if there was only 1?).

I'm 52 and no I do not know how old anybody else is and it really does not matter, we ALL die sometime. All of us better figure out how to solve this part first or the who is doing what will not matter if there is no what to do, because the mail and files will have stopped because somebody died and nobody could take thier place.