Articles

Fidonet is a BBS Organization
Ed Williams
golza@home.com

To: <wdbonner@pacbell.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:39 PM
Subject: Your Fidonews Column

Hello,

After reading your column in this week's fidonews, you helped spur some thought late last night..

Here's the thought...
Fidonet is a BBS organization. We need users, whether we admit to it or not, or indeed everything we do, can be done on the internet. Without supporting users! There is precious little difference between each of us and some web pages.

Supporting users and their interests is what makes us different.

There is utterly no effort on the part of the masses of Fidonet systems to actually put out to the public anything which will encourage them to join us, giving us in return something to do other than sit back and pick endlessly on each other, and struggle over things that if we were busy hammering a decent BBS, supporting new users to the system, we would consider not only mute, but childish.

I'd like to hear your, (and others), comments on my thought here. What you might like to see be done, and so on. You have my permission to use in the Fidonews if you choose.

Ed Williams
The Goblin's Reach BBS (1:128/148)