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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: FidoNet; mail
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Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 18:45:03 EST
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Quoted from <258@puff.wisc.edu> ["Re: FidoNET Newsletter (long - 110 lines)"], by plocher@puff.wisc.edu (John Plocher)...
+---------------
|   This networking is done over normal voice grade phone lines, with the
| originator paying the phone bills.  Users can send mail to users on any
| other Fido BBS in the world, with delivery overnight.  Messages can
| also be sent to anyone on Usenet, again, see below.  Currently, FidoNet
| (the name for the global network of Fidos) consists of over 1000
| systems in USA, Canada, England, Holland, (other European contries too)
| Australia, Indonesia...
+---------------

Along with the UANet scheme I'm working on, I am trying to integrate FidoNET
with UA; this requires that the UNIX system call out, because Fido can't be
made to log in to UNIX (or so I understand).

+---------------
|   FidoNet is organized as a structured blob :-)  Anyone CAN talk to
| anyone else, but default routing channels messages through hosts or hubs.
+---------------

Sounds a lot like Usenet on PCs.  ;-}

BTW, since UA will interface with both Fido and USENET, theoretically any
UA node will be a Fido/UUCP gateway:

	...sys1!sys2!user@sysname.UA
	...sys1!sys2!user@net.node.FIDO

Note that these are only guesses; how it will really work depends on how
I can write the dispatch software without having it turn into the gross
hack that sendmail is... (in fact, I already have ideas on that, based on
a modified regexp allowing macros).

++Brandon
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