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From: cc743810@sjuvax.UUCP (Chuck Conway)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Fidonet "Alternative Network" starts up
Message-ID: <1095@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 05:02:16 GMT
References: <3713@hoptoad.uucp> <3716@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: cc743810@sjuvax.UUCP (Chuck Conway)
Organization: Front Street Racing, Inc
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In article <3716@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
  [about Fidonet, the nation IBM PC BBS network]
+  They seem to be evolving faster than us, so perhaps they can guide us
+  by lighting the path as they tread it (or fall off it).
 
I myself was really disappointed by Fidonet, because of it's rapid
invasion of the Philadelphia are IBM BBS scene.  Everybody who had
a Fido board or a Collie/Colossus board started to accept all the
same sigs and 'local' only messages started to die off.    Then 
sysops started complaining that 'nobody reads messages, everybody
downloads and never uploads'.  I found myself bored because I had
to read the same messages over and over again to actually read
something that was different than the other Fido boards.  I finally
stopped calling when I got this account - Usenet is a class above
Fidonet which seems to be chaotic compared to usenet's controlled
anarchy....
 
Chuck
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