On 09/01/15, Alex Galiyev said the following...
 
 AG> God...... you oldfags made me tired reading all these useless
 AG> conversations in official echos.

I think I can safely disregard that since it is obviously not about me.. :)

 AG> I'm back to Fido again, after long years. Age is causing NOSTALGIA.

I am back too recently, a few months now.

 AG> Ward didn't change for decades, pushing his ideal opinion without any
 AG> actual movements (preventative manipulations).
 AG> Janis is having fun talking and doesn't have time to do anything else.
 AG> 
 AG> I love you all anyways, because you're my HISTORY.

Agreed. :)

 AG> Questions for you:
 AG> 1) Is it worth getting POTS line with Courier V.Everything to do CM? Will
 AG> people dial-in? Are there any areas left in U.S. without cable Internet?

I am in Canada but I doubt there is anywhere left in North America that isn't
connected somehow.

In may part of the world people don't know what a dial up modem is anymore.
There may be a few die-hards left using modems but they are few and far
between.

The situation where you are may be different but I couldn't say.

 AG> 2) How can I be helpful in Fido these days? Considering that my uplink
 AG> doesn't support file echos, doesn't do on-fly areafix requests and
 AG> doesn't do fast tossing and netmail packing.

Of course you can, and you can connect whereever you like for files or
echoes. I connect with quite a few nodes to exchange mail and files.
 
 AG> 3) I'm willing to force people in my organization to use Fido with
 AG> pre-configured automated soft,

Force? Why?

 AG>         a) Are you ready to be more tolerant to the newbie points who
 AG> never heard anything about Fido?

Of course.

 AG> 4) Do you believe in re-generation of Fido, after Internet will be one
 AG> big cloud without any freedom? (couple years from now).

Absolutely.

 AG> I still like the idea of p2p through the phone lines:
 AG>         - Gives you more privacy (yeah, try to bruteforce 8-characted
 AG> protected zip file).

Don't understand that but more power to you.

 AG> Now what's going on with the elections here?

There are no elections here and I don't think any are planned.

 AG> Please explain very slow and twice, and don't yell at the old man.

Please read at your own pace.. :) And if you have qestions, just ask.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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