Hello Everybody,

Yes, it is true.
Sysops did rebel against its founder, Tom Jennings.
Gave him an ultimatum.
Really.
I kid you not.
It is all in the Fidonews.
Vol. 12, No. 24.
12 - Jun 1995

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Whereas FIDONET, for all its problems and troubles, has no direct
governmental controls and stands second only to the InterNet for
access, service, capacity and the freedom to speak, think and express
our individual and collective thoughts; and,

Whereas the present governance of FIDONET is, through its lack of
response, secrecy and failure to inform its membership of its actions,
working in direct contravention of the original principles of FIDONET
as espoused by Tom Jennings and sysops since the very creation of
FIDONET, has failed to uphold the principle of communication, first,
last and foremost; and,
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Whereas this failure in governance denies the membership of
communication as well as growth, development, promotion and advancement
of FIDONET through a series of "band-aid approaches" which do nothing
to solve the basic and underlying problems and instead serve to
insulate the governance from complaints, problems and criticism which
that governance does not wish to hear, let alone act upon...

THEREFORE...We, the member sysops of FIDONET, request:

that TOM JENNINGS tentatively revoke the copyright and
permissions of FIDONET from the governance of the
communications network that bear its name, including
all technologies involved in the processing of links
and nodes;

that said copyrights be granted to a provisional governing board
which contains none of the present members of the governance of
FIDONET at the Regional level and higher, nor any sysop who has
served in such a capacity within the previous five years, with
such a body drawn by a majority vote of participating sysops in
each Region in accordance with present FIDONET Policy 4.07, and
Zone officials to be drawn as well with the same restrictions as
listed herein;

that said revocation by TOM JENNINGS be scheduled for October 1,
1995, unless and until TOM JENNINGS is satisfied that actions
taken by the present governance meet or surpass the spirit of
the FIDONET structure, and answer to the eight specific problems
stated herein.

We post this notice publicly on the 15th of June, 1995.

In the same issue is Tom Jennings' response, titled "Infestation
of manifests". For those interested in reading it, please visit the
Fidonews library ...

--Lee

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