a2fan{at}hotmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 18, 6:41 am, "Doug Mccomber"
 this> wrote:
> 
>> Why is this echo filled with posts from comp.sys.apple2?  I don't know about
>> you, but if I want to read comp.sys.apple2 I'll read it from a usenet feed.
> 
> Yeah, that's how I felt too. It was explained to me that Fido is
> gating a few usenet groups (not just csa2) to increase traffic. In a
> way, I understand it ... not every Fido SysOp has access to a free or
> inexpensive usenet feed for their BBS so gating gets the content out
> to more boards.
> 
> On the other hand, those who have access to Fido and whatever usenet
> is being gated, reading the dupes gets old really fast.
> 
> And whatever happened for Fido pride? Back in the day, Fido (and a
> number of other nets, RIME for example) were pretty militant about
> keeping their networks independent, self-contained communities within
> themselves. To me, it seems Fido is using newsgroups as lifesupport
> for a few slow echos.

Boggle!  Fido-net still exists??  I just assumed it faded away along with the 
rise of the the internet.
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