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From: randy@oresoft.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FidoNET is Usenet without the hassle?  :-)
Message-ID: <23@oresoft.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 13:59:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 21 13:59:39 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Oct-86 22:29:45 EDT
References: <1945@well.UUCP> <1204@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland OR
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Keywords: FidoNet, EchoMail, ...

>I think this is particularly ironic considering it appeared immediately
>after a complex two-page description of how to add a newsgroup!
>-- 
>John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
>(C) Copyright 1986 by John Gilmore.             May the Source be with you!

Gosh, and that was the kinky EchoMailer for Fido.  There are even simpler
systems in the new FidoClone, Opus.  If anyone is really interested in
FidoNet (~1,200 public nodes and God knows how many private ones), I can
post the data structures and state diagrams of the protocol etc.  There
is even a FidoNet/Usenet gateway (actually, for over a year).

randy