-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to Kurt Weiske on 01-25-11  21:05 <=-

 KW> True, but Fidonet has tried to bolt-on a moderation/control structure
 KW> onto a resilient network whereas usenet has relied on a "drink from
 KW> the firehose and manage your own kill filters" approach.

 SD> Keyword is "tried".  The entire time I've been in Fidonet it's been
 SD> the "use your own filters" thing.  In fact, with a
friend's help, I had

Again, as I said to Eric...  It also depends where in Fidonet one is,
whether or not filtering was necessary.  I've been in a few echoes where
I regularly use the  key to skip over certain posters, but
otherwise I've never felt like I had to filter people out completely.

 SD> ported an excellent DOS-based twit filter to OS/2-native so I can use
 SD> it on people. Thankfully I've not had to use that in a very long time
 SD> as the offenders have seen fit to pollute the Internet with their
 SD> garbage and make Fidonet a better place with their absence...

True... the worst offenders did go off to the Internet... which is
another reason why Fido (and other bbs nets) trumps Usenet nowadays.. :)

ttyl    neb

... If I were here more often, I wouldn't be gone so much.

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