3 May
2016
3 May
'16
4:30 p.m.
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 03:32:21AM -0400, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
fido news when he became editor and they are lamenting
the Internet
taking away from fido net....
https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.meulie.net/0/fidonews/2002/fido1902.nw
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In a message dated 4/30/2016 7:43:59 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
geneb at deltasoft.com writes:
On Sun, 1 May 2016, Tomasz Rola wrote:
Pardon my ignorant question but is there a place on the net where I
could read some more about it? Or maybe it is short enough to explain
here?
Books could be written about it unfortunately, One of the more annoying
aspects is Bjorn Felten, the current editor of FidoNews - he's refused
repeated requests to pass on his editor duties for various reasons and
he's refused - for at least the last 10 years. Find a telnetable BBS
that's a member of FidoNet and start reading the FidoNews echo for a taste
of the insanity. The Fido Sysop (FNSYSOP) is also a pretty deranged
place.
Thanks, both of you. Indeed the editorial of 1902 news was creepy. As
of telneting, I almost registered to such BBS but at the very last
moment backed off. The reason was I can see how this kind of place can
be a real time sucker. I have already spent whole Sunday browsing this
gopher site with lynx (I turned gateway address into proper gopher://
one). It was a hell of a joy, because I do not think I knew of meulie
before. I was only poking at gopher.floodgap.com semi-regularly during
last umpteen months.
Now I even started to think, very shyly, how nice would it have been
to posess even one real IP4 number and have one such thing on my
router. It can run Linux (or so OpenWRT guys claim), so it can run
gopherd too. Albeit I would rather have non-Linux on it. My dreams
always have this complicated multistory property. Of course my cabletv
can sell me "business" service. Ugh. This is tempting but I am
strong. :-)
Ah, ok. I still have nothing to show off. So there is no reason to go
gopher. That was easy. Maybe next time.
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:07:34AM -0700, geneb
wrote:
to
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
[...]
>> Just look into the political machinations of what was known as FidoNet see how this could end up.
What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a
political shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh*