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To: Cyclops08
What is Fidonet? in English please.

Sort of a "pre-Internet" network of e-mail servers that used phone lines and modems to allow relaying e-mails between servers.

Very primitive compared to what we have now...but it doesn't depend upon the government controlled and monitored Internet

Along with that is the idea of logging on to bulletin board servers using phone networks and modems...slower and less convenient, but there is no dependence on the Internet

16 posted on 10/29/2009 3:31:38 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley

“What is Fidonet? in English please. “

Seems to originate from the UK, but with site in the US.
The UK is getting worse then the US, as in the ban of Michael Savage, so I doubt that they will be of much use.
They are going down the tubes just as fast, if not faster then the USA.

I will start looking here in the Pacific for alternates.
In any emergency, IRC might stay up longer then anything.
It was widely used in GW one.
It is as old as the internet, and I still use it for chat, worldwide.


19 posted on 10/29/2009 3:40:47 AM PDT by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: markomalley

Ah, Thank you.
Sad that is may have come to this.


20 posted on 10/29/2009 3:42:44 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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