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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Censored NFB BBS proposal
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:39:40 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JM> supportive. At that time, I did not know of the BlinkLink BBS.
 JM> If it had started, I think that at least the BlinkTalk echo had
 JM> not or was young (perhaps our moderator can remind us of the
 JM> beginning dates).

Jamal,
    BlinkLink became a member of FidoNet in October of 1988.  BlinkTalk,
at least in the technical aspects of the word, became an echo in I
believe late November of the same year, although this was primarily just
because Stu Turk and Gary Petraccaro picked it up for their boards,
    A few months later, Don Breda of VIBug, Eric and the guys at COPH,
and Tony Young of Dynamic Duo started picking it up for their boards,
and it shortly after spread to the Moose's Den in Texas, Site in
Oklahoma, the Braille Bank, then in St. Louis, and so on and so on.
    Things really started flying when Gary and I, upon prompting by Stu,
tossed the echo on the backbone about a year and a half ago.  Since
then, we've grown to over 200 boards world-wide.

 JM> voices.  After the BBS joins BlinkTalk as undoubtedly it would
 JM> in this telecommunications spirit, perhaps we may then speak
 JM> directly with Mr. Maurer and Dr. Jernigan over the network.

Yes, it seems almost inconceivable that an organization of the blind,
and in fact one that proports to be "the voice of the blind", would
recognize the benefits of this electronic means of communication, and
not handle the echo devoted to topics related to visual disabilities
distributed via the network of which they are a part, doesn't it?  Add
to this the fact that this echo is restricted to nobody, it is a voice
of the opinions of blind people in general, not the reflections of
any particular blind individual or group, and since no control of the
name given the echo by boards handling it is exerted, one
might justifibly question the motives should the NFB board not handle
BlinkTalk, wouldn't you say?
                                                   Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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