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Skriven 2006-04-29 13:48:38 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ward Dossche
Ärende: Situation on R2:50
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On 27 Apr 06  20:12:18, Ward Dossche got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Situation on R2:50

 > WD> If you aren't talking nonsense then the question needs to be asked
 > WD> what happened with the about 16,400 nodes of zone-1 which
 > WD> dropped-out since 1996. Could it have been prevented?
 
 > I already answered that to Michel.
 WD> 
 WD> No, you avoided it.
 WD> 
 WD> Fact is that many nodes went away because of the internet, there's
 WD> nothing that anyone in Fido could do about it. Just as it is a fact

Au contraire.  The problem is that FIDO was the Inter-net of its 
time.  But, it chose to ignore the new technology and go on 
its merry way oblvious to what was going on around it.  

 > Perhaps it would do you good to read how the Russian contingent
 > feels about their treatment.
 WD> 
 WD> "Contingent" as in "a few dissident nodes" or as in "a major portion
 WD> of their region-segment? 

You're not seeing the forest from the trees.  Change is rarely, if 
ever, begun by the majority.  It is the dissidents that set the 
chain of events in motion.  And, invariably, the ruling class 
opposes those changes.  The majority of people really don't 
care that much one way or another as long as they are not 
adversely affected.  

As it stands, those that do care about the situation in R50 
are for the change by a factor of 3 to 2.  

There is nothing to lose in setting up Russia as its own Zone.  
There is much to lose in pissing them off.  


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