#: 16350 S5/OS9 Users Group
    31-Aug-92  02:33:47
Sb: #15772-#announcement
Fm: John Wight 76370,2100
To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X)

Hello, Carl. Sorry for the delay in the reply, but I thought you might like to
know OS-9 CN and myself are still around.  Look for articles in the latest
issue of OS-9 Underground about OS-9 CN.  I feel the OS-9 community needs both
the services of the OS-9 Users' Group and OS-9 CN, as both can reach where the
other can't. One of my priorities right now is to come up with a reliable means
of communications between those of us on Fidonet, and those that reside on
UUCP, Internet, Bitnet, etc.  As you may or may not know, I lost my feed to
Internet, and as a result, our communications stopped. However, my
communications with those in Fidonet is still quite reliable. There are those
of you that communicate on the other networks that have miscellaneous problems
communicating on Fidonet for whatever reason, for example, I suspect that in
your case, you don't have a local Fidonet node where you can access the COCO
and OS-9 related echos. As for the Internet family of networks, many of us COCO
users either can't find an Internet feed, or can't afford it, while Fidonet is
very accessible to anyone with OS-9 and RiBBS (the only Fidonet software
available for OS-9). On the other hand, many can access the Internet family of
networks, and don't see the need to deal with Fidonet and Ribbs. These are the
type of communications problems I hope that we as a community can resolve, and
I really think we can, as the OS-9 community is very special and capable of
solving any such problems. Any help or ideas you or anyone else can give me on
this would sure be appreciated.

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