Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!egsner!gtenext1!tomt From: tomt%gtenext1.uucp@gte.com (Tom Tucker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: DEATH to FIDONET Message-ID: <1991Jun12.182131.5616@gte.com> Date: 12 Jun 91 18:21:31 GMT References: <1699@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: tomt@gte.com (Tom Tucker account) Reply-To: tomt%gtenext1.uucp@gte.com (Tom Tucker) Organization: GTE Directories Corp. Lines: 42 In article <1699@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: > In article > hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: > >A number of items posted a few days ago reappeared today with some > >FidoNet return path. Is this duplication really necessary? > > Of course not... This is one of the things that happens when > bozos attempt to gateway usenet to fundamentally incompatible > services. > > THE "RESPONSIBLE" PERSON IS don@eastern.com > LET HIM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT HIS "ANIMAL" RUNNING AROUND LOOSE > IF ENOUGH PEOPLE COMPLAIN HE MIGHT TAKE NOTICE > > >What is this "doggone" FidoNet? > > It's a store-and-forward "network" of mostly PeeCees running > something less sophisticated than UUCP over cheezier modems. > It's only real claim to fame is that it's larger than the self- > important BITNET/NETNORTH/EARN contingent... and that it was (for > a while) the only means for black universities in South Africa to > communicate with the rest of the world. Lots of politics and > infighting. Many BBSes frequented by "the dregs of electronic > society" participate; I guess no one else will have them. :-) > > -=EPS=- How do you really feel? -- =============================================================================== Tom Tucker Systems Analyst, Systems Architecture GTE Directories Corp. tomt%gtenext1@gte.com GTE Place (NeXTMail Spoken here) West Airfield Drive, P.O. Box 619810 Voice: (214) 453-7033 D/FW Airport, TX 75261-9810 FAX: (214) 453-7573 -- =============================================================================== Tom Tucker Systems Analyst, Systems Architecture GTE Directories Corp. tomt%gtenext1@gte.com