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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:46:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Gary Welles <gary AT wellesway DOT com>
To: OpenDos <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Networks
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Mike Tripp wrote:

>             . . ..  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.

Apologies for having offered the Bush quote without realizing
it's age. I saw the 1992-93 copyright date on the article, but
perhaps daily viewing of similar current DOS copyright dates led
me to the DOS user's perception that 1993 was last year.

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

     Usenet - FidoNet
     http://livinginternet.com/u/ui_fidonet.htm

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

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

-- Gary