Subj : Re: 2025 FTSC election
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 08:16 am

-=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Björn Felten <=-

 WvV> There isn't a position in Fidonet that can enforce big changes. And if
 WvV> someone tried that probably just speed up the decline of Fidonet...

One thing I've been concerned about is if you make a sweeping change that
requires a change from the downlinks, how many BBSes are running on
autopilot, and how many sysops would choose to pull the plug instead of
spending time on something they're effectively done with?

I took over R10 in 2012, and even back then with more participation saw
roughly 10% of the network that either dropped out or was already gone
when we made the switch.

Nowadays?

Might not be a bad thing, since any board that's on auto-pilot probably
isn't contributing to anything except the nodelist.

Sweeping change isn't Fidonet's forte, though. I'd like to see some
serious consolidation of echoes, but we still have people renewing dead
echoes. Othernets actively foster new echoes and prune when needed, Fido
seems to take the opposite approach.



 
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