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: Wednesday, 28 Jan 2004 07:33:42 -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: 204.252.74.54 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! 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