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From: Scott.Royall@p1.f357.n106.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Scott Royall)
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Subject: Re: Food for thought from NET106 NEC
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Date: 30 Mar 91 05:59:00 GMT
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 In a message dated 28-Mar-91, Michael Matson writes:

 MM> one computer company (sorry Apple users, you lose) since all computers
 MM> are capable of doing the same thing, one car company (why buy Ford?
 MM> Chevy goes down the road too), one grocery store chain, drug store,
 MM> hospital company, pharmaceutical manufacturer, etc, etc.  After all, the
 MM> only thing we do by having competition in compatible technologies
 MM> industries is increase the number of CEO's and executives salaries,
 MM> increase competition, lower prices, and increase efficiency.  Everybody
 MM> knows it's not good a good idea to destroy monopolies!
 MM>
 MM> Yea right!  Sounds like socialism to me.
Interesting logic.  You imply that Democrats and Republicans should use
totally separate phone systems.  That is a logical conclusion of your
argument, Mike.  What some people seem to miss is that an address is simply a
look-up key, just like a phone number.  And, the requirements to maintain a
Fidonet address are as simple and apolitical as I can imagine.  There is
nothing to prevent clubs like VNET from forming inside Fidonet.  It's done,
and those clubs retain ownership of their echos simply by keeping them off
the backbone.

That's how it should work.  Reality is that people tend to erect borders
around things they value.  So we have 300 nets. :)  I just learned that I may
be unable to go multi-net because I am a Fidonet echo distributor, and the
software required to handle my workload is known to break when multi-nets are
added.  Should I quit VNET, Mike?

--- ME2
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