On 20 Nov 2024, Aaron Thomas said the following...

As for Janis I did not know either, her system while in New York was t
only system not within the Net 267 nodelist, that operates the through
the entire state of NY. As a passing thought I always thought that wa
odd. She was such a contributor to fidonet and that was more important
to me then having her within the Empire Net of Net 267.

After she announced that she was taking her BBS down, I contacted her to see if she would sell me her BBBS license (BBBS is a cool BBS software) but she never replied. It seems like that was just a few months ago.

Now we barely got anyone to argue with anymore. :(

I understand you very well and you're right. I respected very much what Janice accomplished and contributed to the fidonet community. Our politics never aligned but of course that is also no secret. Still it is very possible to have an appreciation for ones accomplishments.
As for the other: Conservatives hold things together for far longer and WE also have the ability to simply agree to disagree without bouncing off the walls w/out acting out in a ball of rage.

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As for Janis I did not know either, her system while in New York was the only system not within the Net 267 nodelist, that operates the through the entire state of NY. As a passing thought I always thought that was odd. She was such a contributor to fidonet and that was more important to me then having her within the Empire Net of Net 267.

After she announced that she was taking her BBS down, I contacted her to see

she would sell me her BBBS license (BBBS is a cool BBS software) but she

ever

replied. It seems like that was just a few months ago.

Now we barely got anyone to argue with anymore. :(

She took it down, but then she actually came back for a while. She was
having some sort of technical issues, though.

I wonder now if she didn't take it down after getting her initial
diagnosis, and then decided to bring it back up after she had recovered
from the shock. We will probably never know though.


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As for the other: Conservatives hold things together for far longer and WE

lso

have the ability to simply agree to disagree without bouncing off the walls >w/out acting out in a ball of rage.

We did have that ability. I worry now that some have lost that ability. I don't believe that stooping to the level of others is the way to go.


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I understand you very well and you're right. I respected very much what Janice accomplished and contributed to the fidonet community. Our

I give her credit for figuring out how to run BBBS. It's a pain to set it up. The documentation for it sucks. She had it running nicely, and she even had the web server (a web version of the BBS) and it was nifty.

politics never aligned but of course that is also no secret. Still it is very possible to have an appreciation for ones accomplishments.
As for the other: Conservatives hold things together for far longer and
WE also have the ability to simply agree to disagree without bouncing
off the walls w/out acting out in a ball of rage.

Yea. I love that we don't have a code of conduct to adhere to, but we sorta adhere to one anyway (for the most part) just because we're good honest people. The lefties though, they have to explain themselves when they're seen walking out of a house that has Trump signs in the yard.

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Now we barely got anyone to argue with anymore. :(

She took it down, but then she actually came back for a while. She was having some sort of technical issues, though.

I wonder now if she didn't take it down after getting her initial diagnosis, and then decided to bring it back up after she had recovered from the shock. We will probably never know though.

Yea, I remember that. I had no idea that she was suffering or else I wouldn't have asked to buy her BBBS license. I just assumed that she was tired of BBSing (like a lot of people are, who have given it up.)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Gregory Deyss <=-

Yea. I love that we don't have a code of conduct to adhere to, but we sorta adhere to one anyway (for the most part) just because we're good honest people. The lefties though, they have to explain themselves when they're seen walking out of a house that has Trump signs in the yard.

You might want to read up on the "Creator Covenant" fiasco with open source projects.

Quick overview:
The Elitists marketed it as a "code of conduct" with lots of flowerly sounding words. Then once the project adopted it, used it to force the maintainer to accept commits from "marginalized people" even though the commits were garbage and then not accept commits from competent people if they were white males.

A number of maintainers got booted from their own projects because of this.

Elitists like to use things like a "code of conduct" to infiltrate and ruin institutions.

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Yea, I remember that. I had no idea that she was suffering or else I wouldn't have asked to buy her BBBS license. I just assumed that she was tired of

BSin

(like a lot of people are, who have given it up.)

I am not sure that anyone on FIDO knew until she had passed.


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Yea. I love that we don't have a code of conduct to adhere to, but we sorta adhere to one anyway (for the most part) just because we're goo honest people. The lefties though, they have to explain themselves wh they're seen walking out of a house that has Trump signs in the yard.

Elitists like to use things like a "code of conduct" to infiltrate and ruin institutions.

That's interesting! I knew something was up back in 2020 when all the celebrities started acting like alien nazis.

"Trump bad. Biden good. Buy my new album. Laugh at Jimmy Kimmel's jokes."

I've been saying it all along that "there's a major collusion going on here." Is that the "covenant" that you're referring to? I'd like to read more about it but a quick Google search didn't reveal anything (for me.)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I've been saying it all along that "there's a major collusion going on here." Is that the "covenant" that you're referring to? I'd like to
read more about it but a quick Google search didn't reveal anything
(for me.)

No, but the collusion between media and the Elitists is certainly appearant.

I had the name wrong. They changed it because of the bad press it was getting.
It's now called "Contributor Covenant".

Here's a link to one of the pages complaining about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002708


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