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Skriven 2005-12-02 11:22:11 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 17411 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: Hello
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 RC> My apologies for recollecting things incorrectly, but your rememberance
 RC> of this echo going back to 1989 is inaccurate as well.

   Apology accepted, and no, I'm not wrong about this echo going back to 1989.
Well, that depends of course upon how you define "this echo". Since long before
1989 we had a FIDONEWS echo, with that very tag, here in Sweden (R20). It was a
read-only echo, where the Snooze was posted, and nothing else. So in a sense
you are correct, but in another sense I would like to claim that the echo, with
the tag FIDONEWS is of Swedish origin, and pre-dated the echo you think of with
almost a decade. :)

   And further more, thanks for doing some serious legwork, that pointed me in
the right direction for a follow-up.

   The echo you know as FIDONEWS was indeed created by Chris Baker, just a week
or so after he took over. He was never appointed or anything, as far as any
records show, he just picked up the dropped baton a month after Donald Tees
suddenly resigned without as much as a notice in his last Snooze. This was July
1996.

   In the 1328 Snooze issue of 8 July 1996 he wrote about the newly created
FIDONEWS echo like this:

From: Christopher Baker
To: All
Date: 06 Jul 96  02:22:27
Subj: Welcome to the FidoNews Echo

This is the official home of FidoNews discussion in FidoNet hosted and
Moderated by the FidoNews Editor.

 RC> By the way, do you plan to be editor for life?

   I sure as hell think not. Only one previous Snooze Editor can claim that,
and I'm not planning to be the second. Do you have anyone in mind, that you
think can do the job?

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