On 10/30/06, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became Usenet) by
just a few years. I remember this well because I was one of the lucky
few to receive a Usenet feed from Univ of MD (which I piped promptly
into my BBS, heavily modified WWIV).
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> I am not 100% certain, but I believe Usenet predates FidoNet, if you want
> to talk about message boards and their equivalents. Blogging, however, is a
> different animal.
>
Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became U
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:20 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
> I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom.
> She asked me what it was. I told her people had been doing it for years
> before it ever became "blogging" on BBS's through fidonet, etc.
>
I had a similar conversation
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:20:35AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
} On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote:
} > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
} > > > Anyone remember FidoNET?
} > >
} > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
}
} I just had a conv
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
>
> > > Anyone remember FidoNET?
> >
> > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom.
She asked me w
Dmitri Minaev wrote:
On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Walters wrote:
>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are
still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.*
newsgroups. For some years, I used t
On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Walters wrote:
>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are
still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.*
newsgroups. For some years, I used to run such gate (based
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
> > Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> As for the original topic, in a community this large and diverse there
> is bound to be disharmony. The key question is whether
Ron Johnson wrote:
> SSMTP over non-standard ports?
Doesn't much help since it drops back onto the old net. Fido (the tech,
not just the net) is a completely different technology in that it doesn't need
the ether, it isn't unified, it is something that anyone can participate in
and there's re
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On 10/28/06 19:38, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris Walters wrote:
Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
>> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering
Chris Walters wrote:
>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering
if there might be a growing need for it? Not in terms of spam but in terms of
privacy? Sinc
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