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fido news when he became editor and they are lamenting the  Internet  
taking away  from fido net....
 
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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:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:07:34AM  -0700, geneb wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner  wrote:
>>
> [...]
>>> Just look into the political  machinations of what was known as FidoNet 
to
>>> 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*
>
> 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.

g.


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