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From:	"Mike Tripp" <ccoky AT iglou DOT com>
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Date:	Sunday, 25 Jan 2004 09:52:21 -500
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Originally to: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hello opendos AT delorie DOT com!

24 Jan 04 10:43, Gary Welles wrote to OpenDos:

 GW> Citing Randy Bush <http://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt>
 GW> and saying from a users perspective, I was suggesting that it's
 GW> those "others" who characterize the FidoNet.

Analog modems direct-dialing other analog modems are supported, but not 
necessary.  Analog mailer software running solely Fidonet session protocols are 
supported, but not necessary.  Phone numbers in your nodelist entry are 
supported, but not necessary.  Accessing the Internet via gateways is supported, 
but not necessary.  Fidonet =is= part of the Internet, and both have continued 
to evolve over the last 15 years.  More of those simple facts are contradicted, 
misinterpreted, or unacknowledged by the statements by Gary Welles than by the 
1992 historical retrospect by Randy Bush.

As long as anyone with even a casual interest in participating in Fidonet 
understands that they may do so through the same hardware and software they 
would use to access the Internet, my objective in joining this thread is 
accomplished.

.\\ike

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