41 lines
1.8 KiB
Plaintext
41 lines
1.8 KiB
Plaintext
|
* How Did This Happen?
|
|||
|
|
Tom Jennings 1:125/111
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Let's keep this simple: at no time have the sysops of our FidoNet<65>
|
|||
|
|
network given /0's the privilege of determining how our network<72>
|
|||
|
|
is run. They are not representatives of anyone but themselves;<3B>
|
|||
|
|
they are merely administrative nodes to generate nodelist<73>
|
|||
|
|
fragments, help new sysops get online and act as repositories of<6F>
|
|||
|
|
the necessary network files. They are ordinary nodes with more<72>
|
|||
|
|
work to do.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A dangerous thing has been attempted, and is undermining the<68>
|
|||
|
|
trust that we rely on. "POLICY4" is simply not in effect, it was<61>
|
|||
|
|
not voted upon by the members at large. I, and many many others,<2C>
|
|||
|
|
are simply ignoring the supposed policy "change". How did this<69>
|
|||
|
|
happen?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
POLICY4 is terrible policy. It takes the right to choose your own<77>
|
|||
|
|
net host way! It entrenches /0's as positions of authority. This<69>
|
|||
|
|
is insane and does not facilitate our communications. A "smoothly<6C>
|
|||
|
|
running network" is not our goal; we are here to communicate,<2C>
|
|||
|
|
that is all. We do that well now. Even voting on POLICY4 is<69>
|
|||
|
|
insane, it certainly will not benefit the 6000 or so sysops in<69>
|
|||
|
|
the network!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I've had FidoNet users tell me that their host doesn't auto-
|
|||
|
|
matically route them their host-routed mail. This was the most
|
|||
|
|
basic purpose of a net host to begin with! The whole concept of
|
|||
|
|
host-routing was to make FidoNet more effecient by concentrating
|
|||
|
|
calls!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyways, If a few-dozen or -hundred /0's can vote, then a
|
|||
|
|
few-thousand can represent themselves just as simply. So what
|
|||
|
|
if it takes a long time, expediency is not a goal. If we don't
|
|||
|
|
have the tool(s), write them or do it by hand. Freeze a nodelist
|
|||
|
|
as the "list of registered voters". Have everyone send in a
|
|||
|
|
message. Check them off the list. Hold redundant votes, compare
|
|||
|
|
results. Give it a month. The net runs fine, there is no need to
|
|||
|
|
implement bad policy just to satisfy some bureaucratic urge!
|
|||
|
|
|