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Engineering and Humor
by Ol'WDB

Creative engineers are using an old tool in a new way to reengineer the organizational functions and father development of old Entities. I think Fidonet falls into that category as technology is fast eliminating the need for it, and the usefulness of Fido to the masses is declining.

Development and implementation of a new framework is necessary for Fido to survive in the next millennium. So let us look at the new innovative possibilities to resurrect and reconstruct a great hobby that served a great public need the past decade or so.

My limited engineering knowledge was in the Video and Sound fields, a very narrow area in the total engineering spectrum. All engineering fields are built upon a frame work of knowledge about the behavior of materials of every known medium and application. Organizations large and small depend on team work to accomplish the development of the product, the marketing and sales of their efforts.

Ladies and gentlemen, Fidonet is no different then Mother Bell or her big sister AT&T. In fact, all three have a lot in common, (chuckle) and there in lies the basic frame work needed for a happy successful use of a hobby to enhance our enjoyment of life and help the whole world.

One of the many tools used in engineering is the languages of the entire world to one degree or another as applicable to the location and project. Language in the form of text is the primary tool of Fidonet. It can be used in many ways and is quite flexible in most general applications. It conveys powerful images, sounds and feelings. Those who are real engineers in the use of it are Journalists by degree, and those of us that try to utilize it are not always successful.

Now to the question: Why, as it relates to Fidonet's troubles?

To find the answer to that question, a team of engineers would be assigned specific fields according to talent and degree, to assimilate every word, dotting all "i's" and crossing all "t's" in both cases, applying all known rules of the languages that make up the network of Fido.

Then they would run the result through their individual programs and post their findings on the units "scratch board" for final collective analyses. Then all of the individual papers would be developed and the resulting algorithm <+AP4-h+SS-T/pB2 > was compiled , the answer was determined in these words in succession of degree:

+Antiquated P4, -humorB2, +Sh*t stirrers, -Truth, / Procrastination is the answer.

To effect an increase in teamwork, empower each sysop/node with a positive sense of humor, a warm body vote in all elections, dramatically increasing their creative abilities to recruit others; and by the disposition of the negative procrastination propensities.

In a friendlier Fido, all fights would be avoided voluntarily, leaders would be anxious to extend a helping hand to beginners again without making the puppies feel like ignorant idiots. That was the way Fido grew and the only way it will grow again.

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