John Donohue (1:397/5258) wrote to Steven Horn at 11:55 on 11 Jan 2003:

 JD> Greetings Steve and Michiel. 1:397/5258 just recently joined this
 JD> echo (after the message(s) referred to above). As  someone who has
 JD> been in fido since the early '90s, AND works in a public library
 JD> with both Gates Foundation Grant public access computer, and
 JD> in-house produced public access computers, the above content caught
 JD> my attention. Could you recap the discussion on this thread that I
 JD> missed? I might have some ideas or comments in this area.
 JD> Thanks!

This discussion arose out of a message which Felipe T. Dorado wrote to me
and said, "But when one cannot afford Fido, a computer or a phone
line. then the Inet is simply science fiction."  That was on Dcember
29

I referred Felipe to the free access to the Internet one has here through
one of many public libraries and he has not yet responded.  But Michiel
said that Internet access through libraries in the Netherlands was not free
and my response to that was have the library get a Gates Foundation Grant. 

 JD> As for the message's subject; I used to say that I intended to be
 JD> the last node in fidonet; but since the growth of fido in russia, I
 JD> may have to settle for the distinction of being the last fido node
 JD> in zone 1. ;-)

You are more ambitious than I am or you are a fair bit younger.  I think
Fidonet will outlive me.:-)

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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