Hello opendos{at}delorie.com!

24 Jan 04 10:43, Gary Welles wrote to OpenDos:

 GW> Citing Randy Bush http://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt>
 GW> and saying from a users perspective, I was suggesting that it's
 GW> those "others" who characterize the FidoNet.

Analog modems direct-dialing other analog modems are supported, but not
necessary.  Analog mailer software running solely Fidonet session protocols
are supported, but not necessary.  Phone numbers in your nodelist entry are
supported, but not necessary.  Accessing the Internet via gateways is
supported, but not necessary.  Fidonet =is= part of the Internet, and both
have continued to evolve over the last 15 years.  More of those simple
facts are contradicted, misinterpreted, or unacknowledged by the statements
by Gary Welles than by the 1992 historical retrospect by Randy Bush.

As long as anyone with even a casual interest in participating in Fidonet
understands that they may do so through the same hardware and software they
would use to access the Internet, my objective in joining this thread is
accomplished.

.\\ike

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