Subj : Re: Questions for them To : Sean Dennis From : Carol Shenkenberger Date : Mon Nov 20 2017 10:27 pm Re: Re: Questions for them By: Sean Dennis to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Nov 13 2017 05:47 pm SD> -=> Carol Shenkenberger wrote to All Candidates <=- SD> Hi Carol, SD> I'll be happy to answer your questions. Glad to hear too! I didnt answer right away and could claim it was a sick dog, sick kid or anything else, but lets not bother. I was off doing Thanksgiving charity if you must know (grin, really, Mayflower Marithon organization in Virginia Beach, one of many who helped). CS>> 1. Which FTSC projects/products interest you the most? (can be CS>> several). Need not come with exact document name as some of them CS>> span several. SD> To be honest, I haven't kept up with a lot, though I know there is a SD> debate about "mobile nodes" going on. I agree with Michiel that there SD> probably isn't going to be a lot of expansion technology-wise with FTN but SD> there is a dire need for documenting what already is available and SD> working. Fair enough! Over time I saw rivers of trying to mandate all support a partiular codepage and only jumped in when they tryed to mandate deadware systems who could not support had to turn off their systems if they could not update. CS>> 2. How familar are you with the issues that *C's face? No harm if CS>> you are not CS>> or never have been one but include alternets as the experience can CS>> be the same. SD> Having been RC11 in the early 2000s, yes, I am. I have also been running SD> The Micronet Information Network, a FTN-style network with QWK/NNTP gates, SD> for 17 years now. I have been the zone coordinator the entire time. Lots SD> of little headaches but they get fixed. Same here with Battlenet now. CS>> 3. If you have been a *C and experienced a site that needed CS>> alternative to normal delivery, how did you deal with it? If you CS>> have not experienced that, what do you think you would do? SD> I have no problems with alternative delivery methods. I would say that SD> BinkP is pretty standard in this age of the Internet though POTS is still SD> a viable option also. My system can handle BinkP, FTP, ifcico, and mailer SD> over telnet connections. ;-) CS>> 4. Since there is a call to conduct FTSC business mostly in the CS>> FTSC Public echo, how do you feel about that and why? What should CS>> remain in the private echo and what transparent here? SD> I don't have a problem with the FTSC conducting a majority of its business SD> in the open. What should remain private are any interpersonal issues SD> within the FTSC (though we all know what happens with that eventually) or SD> discussions about ideas and subjects that should be discussed privately SD> first and get the agreement of the majority of the group before discussing SD> things publicly. I think I agree. I lean to what was posted earlier, stays there. I personally have nothing to fear there but people who said things in private to me that they would not want public, should have that freedom. There were some very ugly posts at me 2001-2007 and I not only don't want to see them again, I don't want others to take them in to flavor how those people are today. Some of them had rough edges then that have smoothed out now and should not be taken to task for youth and excitement of then. CS>> 5. How good do you think you are at working with others, especially CS>> if their view is opposite to yours? How do you handle that? SD> I don't have a problem with working with others. Outright castigation for SD> suggesting something, well, not a good idea. Nor should that ever happen there, mor have EVER happened there. CS>> For candidates, there are no right or wrong answers here. While we CS>> may see some CS>> differences between zones, we may also see a lot of commonality that CS>> wasn't clear before. We succeed because we span a wide range of CS>> capabilities regardless of where we physically reside. SD> Fidonet has been and will be "controlled anarchy". We're all in this SD> together whether we realize it or not. The network's survival and SD> viability in today's age of instant gratification rests on our ability to SD> modernize, extend, and make the network attractive to new sysops who would SD> be interested in participating. Smile. I like your answers. Carol --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32 * Origin: SHENK'S EXPRESS telnet://shenks.synchro.net (1:275/100) .