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On 25/06/2019 07.37, Steve Hayes wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 14:02:12 +0200, "Carlos E. R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 22/06/2019 07.02, Grant Taylor wrote:

On 6/21/19 2:01 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

IIRC did wvdial just made it easy to dial via ppp. I am bold and say
if you wanted you could even establish a DSL connection with it.

<https://linux.die.net/man/1/wvdial>

$ReadingList++

I never used FIDO for news.

I think FidoNet echos had (still have) their own ecosystem with
different content, but similar in nature to Usenet newsgroups.

Correct. Except that most were moderated. The moderator posted the rules
(like what charset to use), and could expel misbehavers. There was a
longish document with Fidonet rules. No, two docs, one generic, one for
the echoareas. The structure was hierarchical, with elected or appointed
bosses. Routes had to be defined according to resources, schedules
negotiated... All that was not automatic.

When Usenet newsgroups first started being gated to Fidonet, many
usenet users feared that letting the Fidonet rabble in would mean the
end of Usenet. Now Usenet is full of spammers, trolls and fanatics and
only about one article in 20 is worth reading, and I long for the days
of Fidonet and the interesting conversations.

Yes.


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Cheers, Carlos.
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On 25/06/2019 15:49, Carlos E.R. wrote:

When Usenet newsgroups first started being gated to Fidonet, many
usenet users feared that letting the Fidonet rabble in would mean the
end of Usenet. Now Usenet is full of spammers, trolls and fanatics and
only about one article in 20 is worth reading, and I long for the days
of Fidonet and the interesting conversations.

Wasnt it AOL that marked the end of Usenet as it guarnateed a series of
noobs all the time - 'eternal september'

Then they invented faeces book.

Yes

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