= Сообщение: 8753 из 12491 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 11 Jun 19 15:56:35 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 11 Jun 19 15:56:35 Тема : Michael Gove FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5cffb30e На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5cff6cc9 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5d000fd9 ============================================================================== On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:34:52 Michiel van der Vlist -> David Rance wrote:
MvdV> On Monday June 10 2019 11:31, you wrote to me:
DR>> Mike Gove moved from Crawley to Bristol around 1993. Because I DR>> operated a midnight line
MvdV> Midnight line = cheap or free calls in the wee hours?
Free calls in return for a hefty rental. But subscriptions would just about cover that. Of course, we had the jobsworths saying it was against the spirit of Fido to charge for mail delivery, but they'd obviously and deliberately missed the point! The point was that it saved people money and it was voluntary.
DR>> he moved from Net 257 to mine. Then all those jobsworth people who DR>> threw their weight around by insisting that each net should cover a DR>> discrete geographical area (despite the wishes of the sysops DR>> themselves),
MvdV> We, here in The Netherlands, had our (un)fair share of those problems MvdV> as well. The war over Geographical vs overlapping nets led to a seven MvdV> year CSO war... :(
Fido had its fair share of petty dictators.
MvdV> Michael Gove made it into the national news here last night. In an item MvdV> covering the 10 candidates for succession of Theresa May, he was MvdV> mentioned second after Boris Johnson. His drug use was mentioned in MvdV> passing. Such things are not considered a big issue here. It may be MvdV> different in your bayliffwick.
It used to be a big problem here but people are much more forgiving now. The media had tried to whip this up but it didn't have the effect they had hoped. Twenty years ago it would have been different.
MvdV> To me it seems that whoever succeeds Theresa May, we are still heading MvdV> for a hard brexit. Boris Johmson is already on collision course, but MvdV> with one of the others at the helm, the chances of reaching a deal MvdV> acceptable to all concerned before the October 31 deadline also seem MvdV> small.
Well, I wouldn't know! :-(
"As for me all I know is that I know nothing."
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
