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A user of the FidoNet computer network.
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FidoNet folk got into Telebits a good while ago. At the time, we were also told that we would be able to follow the upgrade path with low cost ROM changes all the way. For that reason, many FidoNetters got Blazers (though many got USR/HSTs too). […] I am not saying that Telebit was wrong, or the FidoNetters were either.
HEY YOU FIDONETTERS OUT THERE!! How about at least keeping your postings realted to Star Trek. Note the news group title. And how about reading about nettiquette?
I would like to congratulate the vast majority of this conference for the way they are handling the latest "offensive" message from a FidoNet site (mine). […] I ask all here to take note of a single mitigating fact. FidoNetters are largely amateur operators who run systems for the no-cost or little cost enjoyment of their users. We are the "hams" of the computer networking world.
I really don't have an opinion of FidoNet, other than FidoNet was added to UseNet, not vice versa, so FidoNetters should follow UseNet protocols...which include returns at the end of lines, not just wrapping around, because most, if not all, of the message her go through a unix host at one time or another.
The two cultures are slightly different. While a fair number of us eggheads participate in both nets, the FidoNetters tend to discuss day-to-day issues a bit more than the c.l.m2 folk, who mainly seem to exchange addresses of vendors and flame C :-).
Nobody objects to them there (here), but the number of responses isn't real overwhelming. Generally FidoNetters (I can only speak for the FidoNet C_Echo, since it's all I really have time to participate in) seem to treat Unix discussions as interested spectators. Recent threads on gcc and g++ have been particularly lively...
Because FidoNet used standard phone lines for message transfer, practically all messages were public and few private. When FidoNetters began making the switch to Usenet, the experience of most of them was the same: They were called cultural idiots and blasted for putting their responses within the group and not replying privately.