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Originally to: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hello opendos AT delorie DOT com!

26 Jan 04 08:46, Gary Welles wrote to OpenDos:

 GW> I saw the 1992-93 copyright date on the article, but perhaps daily
 GW> viewing of similar current DOS copyright dates led me to the DOS
 GW> user's perception that 1993 was last year.

1993 would be "today" to my DOS and a "couple of years from now" to my Netware 
3.11. :)

 GW> Let me make up for this with reference to a brief and optimistic
 GW> assement of FidoNet in an Internet/Usenet context:

While gating is still fairly common between Fido echomail and Usenet newsgroups, 
there are also NNTP server front-ends which access and store locally in Fido 
messagebase formats enabling dynamic message-by-message translation as opposed 
to wholesale batch translation of a lump of data in this format to a lump of 
data in that format.

 GW> which also contains references, among them Jerry Schwartz's
 GW> 1995-2003 primer:

 GW>      A FidoNet Primer
 GW>      http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html

Looks like we need to prompt somebody to publish a few "present and future of 
Fidonet" articles to balance out the plethora of "history of" articles...

.\\ike

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