Re: Re: internet  was: telnet
  By: NANCY BACKUS to ERIC OULASHIN on Sun Jan 23 2011 19:01:00

 > There's always been practically no spam in FidoNet... and generally
 > flaming is kept under control (in the echos that aren't essentially
 > flame echos anyway, that is) as well, especially in the civil ones like
 > this one and the others I hang out in...  :)  (Yeah, yeah, I remember
 > that this one hasn't ALWAYS been this civil... but it's been pretty good
 > for a while now... )

:)  There seems to still be some flaming in some of the echos..  Recently, I've
heard some people refered to FidoNet as "Fight-O-Net" because of
the lack of
civility in some echos.  I hadn't noticed that much before though, in the 90s.

 > There had been gating back and forth, not always with permission... It
 > was a not-really-so-good an idea, since mostly what it did was mess with
 > the safeguards that Fidonet had...

I can understand that..  It seems that FidoNet has always been fairly moderated
with rules, whereas Usenet is not.

Eric
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