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From: Marshall Presnell Msg Num: 218 of 281
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To: All Date: 07 Dec 91 00:47:38
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Subj: This routing BS
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Attr: Sent Read: N
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Conf: Atlanta Business ECHO
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Ok guys, time for a little history lesson:
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In the beginning, there was TJ and the void.
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TJ created from the void, a bbs; and he looked down upon his bbs and said 'It
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is good'. And callers called his bbs, and they too sayeth that it was good.
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TJ was pleased.
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And then, TJ made from the software of the first bbs, a second - and he did
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send it to Jon Madill in Maryland so that it would communicate to the first.
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And they did communicate during a sacred time known as national mail hour;
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And TJ looked upon this - and it was also good.
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Then the gospel spread throughout the fields, over the mountains, and through
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the valleys - and verily those two bbs systems begat a multitude. And TJ
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said, This is good.
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TJ personally maintained the sacred list of nodes, until it overfloweth his
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storage and processing capacity. (And interfered with his weekend
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skateboarding)
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Then the great crisis came, whereupon TJ said "Let there be nets, to assist
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me in managing this network" - and the nodes, who up until that time and
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spread their tendrils to each and every other node to communicate, began to
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cluster into small, geographically close areas called 'local networks' - and
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it was done, and it was good.
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Then TJ, in his infinite wisdom and forward thinking, said "Let there be net
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hosts so that national mail hour will flow smoothly and that those net hosts
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can receive mail for all the disciples in their network" - and it was done.
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Then the second crisis came, when TJ no longer wished to maintain a strict
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three tier network topology due to increasing numbers of converts to the
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gospel of FidoNet... and TJ said "Let there be regions, which will consist of
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groups of networks" - and it was done, and it was good.
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Then, a lone disciple of FidoNet began sending large amounts of material host
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routed through the regional coordinators for delivery to the network
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coordinators for delivery to the masses - that was NOT good, and yea verily
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the Regional Coordinators did complain loudly and vociferously to the
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almightly TJ who sayeth, "Why art thou troubled, did you not know that you
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must pay the freight?" - and the regional coordinators did spit fire and
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brimstone and TJ was suitably impressed with their convictions (and
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theatrics) and said "As I am a just and merciful nodelist coordinator, you
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shall henceforth NOT route inbound netmail to your network hosts, and I shall
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say it from the top of every mount and all shall hear my decision" - and the
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regional coordinators rejoiced for they felt that their nodelist compiler was
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with them, and protected and comforted them.
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Another disciple of FidoNet was beginning to discover the true joy and
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happiness of the network which TJ created - he was content to send messages
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to the far corners of the network, but he was not content to pay the
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resultant phone bill from the evil AT&T. So reluctant was he, that he began
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depositing his mail on his hosts system, so that his host would, brightly
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brightly and with beauty, deliver his personal mail to the far away lands of
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the other networks. The net coordinator spake unto this disciple saying, "Yea
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verily though you think I am here to bear the cost of your burden with the
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evil AT&T, I must inform you that you are not exactly correct, and you shall
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henceforth refrain from depositing your outbound netmail on my system". And
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the TJ was plead to by the disciple asking for a decision so that he would
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not be impure of thought and deed, but the TJ responded saying thus: "Sorry
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bozo, you are out of your mind - have I not created network coordinators so
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that people may communicate with you at less cost? Have I not put in place
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the network and the software so that you can, yea now and forever,
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communicate with those you wish? - Have I betrayed you, my disciple?" - And
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the disciple respondeth saying "The evil AT&T requires a sacrifice from me" -
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and TJ said, "Did you not create that problem yourself by writing to the
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masses with your own hand?" - The disciple asked for forgiveness from TJ,
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pleading that he would not annoy others by making them pay for his vices -
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and TJ, being the wonderful creator that he is said, "Go and sin no more".
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This then explains the fundamental precepts of the FIdoNet as created by TJ.
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Marshall Presnell
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This message copyright (c) 1991 Marshall Presnell; All rights reserved
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Permission to reprint in entirety granted so long as credit is duely given.
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--- Maximus/2 2.00
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* Origin: SFCBBS - Atlanta - 594-1315 (1:133/114)
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