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      FIDONEWS 19-02               Page 6                   14 Jan 2002

It's not a total "goodbye"
                                 By Frank Vest
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Last week, I announced that I was resigning the Editorship of the Fidonews. It
had been coming for a while and I had asked Bj"rn Felten to take the position.
He agreed and we had plans to change over around the first of February. It
didn't happen that way and my apologies to Bj"rn for that.

I want... no... I need to tell everyone that it wasn't any one thing that
caused me to leave.

The Editorship of the Fidonews is a demanding position. Unless you have been
there, you really don't know how demanding it can be. Even if every article
that you receive (providing you receive any at all) is perfect in format and
other technical aspects, the Editor still has to receive, test, proof read,
compile and produce then hatch the Fidonews each week. To do this all but
requires that the Editor be available and checking the different methods in
place for receiving articles on a daily basis. When one accepts the
Editorship, one suddenly finds that their world revolves around the Fidonews.
Planning a trip or vacation is many times made to allow for the final testing,
compiling and hatching of the Fidonews. Even if much is automated, some things
can not be.

One may say that much of the production of the Fidonews /could/ be automated.
Maybe so, but there is still the need, nay, the requirement of human
intervention. To simply set up programs to receive articles, compile them and
then hatch the finished product would work to some degree, but not always. A
file could come in that, while formatted correctly and with no errors, is not
meant to be an article. An article can be received that meets all the
technical qualifications, but was not meant to be or shouldn't be an article.
There will always be the need for an Editor.

No, my friends, it was not any one thing or person. It was a build up of
things. I knew it was coming.

I'd like to thank some people in this article. I'm sure that I'll miss some
names. Consider yourself thanked any way. So, in mo particular order:

     Bj"rn Felten; for taking the Editorship... even though I didn't give
     him as much time as we both would have liked. :-)

     Warren Bonner and Steve Quarrella; Both have been my "shoulder to cry
     on" many times. I believe that an Editor needs that as much, or more,
     than anything else.

     Michiel Van Der Vlist; We had our disagreements, but you handled them
     with respect and dignity. I commend you for that.

     Carl Austin Bennett; You posted the Fidonews to the echo like
     clockwork except for the times that I screwed up and didn't get the
     Fidonews to you. :-)  Thanks!

I'm sure that I've missed some. My thanks to you as well. <smile>

I'll still be around to some degree. I have some things that I still want to
do that have little to do with Fidonet politics. I'll write the occasional
article and, maybe, visit the echo from time to time. Who can say what the
future will bring. :)


Thanks to all,

Frank Vest



Roger

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