I opened fidonews.eu in crome and clicked on the anonymous link --- and nothing happened.

That's strange, considering that you are a long time registered user:

dshipp <password withheld> AIST ABIS "Dale Shipp"

Maybe you've missed that the server moved from felten.yi.org to eljaco.se *after* you registered many years ago?

But of course I could have hard-coded e.g. the FIDONEWS echo into the link, but it never occurred to me, that someone with a properly installed newsreader wouldn't know how to bring up the list of available echoes on a server.

My bad. Note to self: Never underestimate the stupidity of the average John Doe.


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Note to self: Never underestimate what a jackass know-it-all some
people think they are.

And you ran a BBS back then, when there still was a BBS sysop requisite for getting a nodelisting, sir? Just so that we know what fidonet experience you actually have -- as opposed to those of us with more than 30 years of ditto.




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And you ran a BBS back then, when there still was a BBS sysop requisite for getting a nodelisting, sir?

Is that important in any way at all?

Just so that we know what fidonet experience you actually have -- as opposed to those of us with more than 30 years of ditto.

Those sysops with many years of experience would be an asset to new sysops if they would share their experience in a meaningful way, rather than a mean way.

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Those sysops with many years of experience would be an asset to new
sysops if they would share their experience in a meaningful way, rather than a mean way.

Amen to that.

During all my three decades as *C I've managed to assist many new BBS operators into being connected to the fidonet BBS network.

So I cannot other than agree with you Alan.

Unfortunately only a few nodelisted systems are operated by real BBS sysops, so unless you are really fortunate and happen to get in contact with a true BBS sysop, all you can hope for is help to get a one-man nodelisting. Previously known as a point system.



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