Guest Editorial

DO YOU REALLY CARE?
wdbonner@pacbell.net

Today the American Stock Market MIRRORS Fidonet.
Gold: $273, most everything else sliding downhill. The value of gold is holding its own, while Fidonet steadily deflates it's own valued nodelist.

After 10 fat years, all of a sudden, the Fidonet Nodelist `Nile' has begun to run dry. Our Z's are on the spot. For unlike Joseph, the Jew who interpreted Pharaoh's dream. and became Egypt's second-in-command, they have not accomplished their duty to upgrade the antiquated Policy known as "P4.07" which is the mortar that holds the bricks of Fidonet together. The bricks just keep decomposing and disappearing; thus the Nodelist dries up.

And so, the drought has begun...and the "granaries" are near empty, and still no rain, crops, or other relief is in sight.. But there is a promising storm cloud rolling over us as we read this opinion. Dear reader, I have never been on a first name basis with a deity. I do try to figure out how his 'invisible hand' works, but it seems presumptuous to give it a shake.

Perhaps a good BRAIN-STORM............................................ by each of you would cause the down pour of ideas which would make our Fido Garden grow... by gentle persuasion modest expectations can be achieved if the C's unite together to get a new or at least a revised Policy that utilizes the power of this INTERNET STORM.

Ol'wdb