> > Ehh -- good question. Why not? I, for one, would be open to any
> > similar method of communication. FIDO, maybe? :) UUCP is just what
> > springs to my own mind.
>
> FWIW, I got curious. Everyone has been mentioning FidoNet in the past
> tense, and I just did work 2 years ago for a guy who was trying hard to
> get me into it. I just looked, and there are 8 active Fido dialups in
> Austin.
I never really got into FidoNet for two reasons. The first was
the highly political nature of FidoNet (splitting off, banning
nodes, etc.). The main reason was the Fido spews on Usenet. It
seems like every couple of months some Usenet-FidoNet gateway
would spew a lot of articles back into Usenet with new IDs, so
the messages wouldn't be rejected by the Usenet servers as
duplicates. The FidoNet gateway administrators always acted
like it was Usenet's problem, not theirs, and that they were
doing Usenet a favor by running the gateways, which they weren't.
The gateways were for the benefit of FidoNet, not Usenet. I
finally added code to just dump anything that came through a
FidoNet node, so my server (and those downstream) didn't have
to worry about the spews.
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