Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU!GTHEALL
From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: RE: RAINBOW USERS UNITE!!    Conf: (74) fRAINBOW
Message-ID: <8910101206.AA17472@remote.dccs.upenn.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 13:05:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 45

Comments: Rainbow Echomail from VAN VANHORN    Read: YES

George,

First, as far as finding fossils for the Rainbow, the board you are entering
messages in certainly has them if it has anything for rainbow users at all.
What you need are DECCOMM and VFOS_DEC.  If your system doesn't have them,
every other board hosting this echo must.

As far as the connections to CIS are concerned, I really don't give a rat's
ass how little CIS might make off our messages.  It also is not germane how
many of us use either service in our businesses.  The question here is equity.

I don't know for sure, but I don't think that CIS has either more FORUMs than
FIDOnet has echoes, nor do I think they have a higher message volume than
we do.  I could be wrong, but I think the collected FIDOnet systems are equal
in size to CIS.  If there is a difference, I am certain it isn't big.

If they are going to charge people $12.80 per hour to read messages that
were entered on FIDOnet systems, it seems only right that we should be able
to read messages that somebody else paid $12.80 to enter.  I think both sides
would benefit from a two-way exchange, and it certainly wouldn't hurt CIS.
They would be paid by the originator of any CIS message for the time to
enter the message, and they would probably be paid by somebody for the time
to download it and transfer it to FIDOnet.

In short, both sides have rules of entry, both sides would benefit from the
larger number of messages that a two-way exchange would make possible.  To
allow Compu$erve, nay, for Compu$erve to even ask, for a one sided exchange
is offensive to me.

Of course, the real question is not up to you and I.  I don't recall whether
or not Stricks is the moderator of this echo, or if I am confusing the three
DEC echoes in my mind, but the moderator has sole discretion on this one.
It doesn't sound like Bill Mayhew has the authority to negotiate for CIS,
and neither you nor I do on the FIDO side.  The moderator has absolute authori
over echo routing, and that would include any gates to other systems or networ
Maybe we'll hear from him in the next few days.

+vanhorn+


---
* Origin: Horsefeathers + Burn a flag for freedom! + (Opus 1:343/30)
--- Via PCBGate v2.0a5