Fido is far from dead! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 1997

At 07:38 AM 10/29/97 -0800, you wrote:
...
  Check around on
the web for Fido software.  Back in the days before the
Internet, FidoNet was a world-wide network of independant BBS's.   
	Fido is far from dead. In fact, some sysops have claimed an increase in 
Whups!  I did not mean to imply at all that Fido was dead.  Only that I was
communicating with people around the world long before most of us heard
about the Internet.  I think Fido is great and I'm glad to hear it is still
going strong.  

...
 	I have a wide assortment of BBS software oriented
towards DOS-based
systems. My pacakge of choice is RemoteAccess 2.01. If there's someone on 
Is RemoteAccess a Fido compatible BBS or a terminal pgm?  Do you know where
to get the Fido software?  

Btw, is Tom(?) Jennings (is that his name?  the author of Fido) still around
in the Fido world?  I met him once -- a true genius, and definitely deserves
greater acclaim than he has received.

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