X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "Mike Tripp" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Networks Message-ID: Date: Sunday, 25 Jan 2004 09:52:21 -500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: Mike Tripp, 1:382/61 X-Fido-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IgLou-Customer: verified X-Originating-IP: 204.252.74.18 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 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