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From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: software for sending mail XENIX to DOS pc's
Message-ID: <56.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 23:31:22 GMT
References: <186@zorin.UUCP>
Reply-To: mvac23!thomas@udel.edu
Organization: MultiVac23, Newark, DE, U.S.A.
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> J. Brooke King asked 'what's a fido'... Well I don't know much about it, 
> but it is something similar to usenet, but much smaller scale.. I think it
> comes out of bbs systems.

You are right that it comes out of BBS's.  It is a network of PC-BBSs which
exchange mail somewhat like UUCP does.  However, rather than being any-to-
any the way UUCP is, FidoNet is more like a hirearchical structure.  Individual
nodes communicate with hub nodes which communicate with 'super-hub' nodes,
(they may be called regional nodes).  They are sort of like backbone nodes.

                         - tom
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