Hi Michiel!

Wednesday May 10 2006, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 MV>>> Accepting that FidoNet is a museum piece is the only way to
 MV>>> survive...

 VD>> Are you know about new FIDO projects - with hypertext and pictures,
 VD>> for example - named FGHI (Fidonet Global Hypertext Interchange)? Yes,
 VD>> this will need to change editors to WISIWING standart, but this is
 VD>> very low price for continue our life.

 MV> Don't you think pimping FidoNet has not been tried here? All thos projects
 MV> have faiked and so, I am sorry to say will yours. Because:

 MV> 1) FidoNet owes its success to its modest bandwith requirements and
 MV> efficient use of it. Pictures and other whistles and bells however require
 MV> a broadband InterNet connection. So for people to participate they need an
 MV> adsl or cable connection. But when they have that, they no longer have
 MV> need for Fido. Bringing Fdio closer to InterNet has always led to loss of
 MV> FidoNet members.

Echoes with big traffic - pictures and movies - each sysop can subscribe or
not, also as UUE-echoes now.

 MV> 2) You are reinventing the wheel. There is plenty of stuff around that
 MV> already offers all the whistles and bells: usenet, msm, napster, you name
 MV> it.

I wrote there - best of FIDO verse Internet is controlling and moderating,
and un-anonymousing in FIDO. Do you understand me?

 VD>> This project is discuss to echoes Ru.FTN.Develop, Ru.FTN.WinSoft and
 VD>> Ru.Fidonet.Today - only Russian language, but you can write
 VD>> there... Author of this is Sergey Sokoloff 2:5063/88.

 MV> Soory I can not read Russian ad I am to old to learn it.

I wrote that you can wrote there in English, and samebody answer to you on English.

Example phrase from this echo (in my computer translate) about my previos sentance :

=== Begin Windows Clipboard ===
On the contrary, in FIDONET there are two advantages which favourably
distinguish this network. The first advantage I shall name purposeful
moderate echo conferences owing to which in FIDONET there is less than
offtopic, rather than in the majority of forums of the Web, and it is much
more than politeness and mutual respect. Second advantage FIDONET is basic
absence of any necessity for continuous connection of the user to the
Network: in FIDONET absolutely there is no unnecessary haste and
consequently the majority of messages left here shine thoroughness and
reasonableness, open a theme and express an idea much more full, rather
than complete (force) brief messages in the Web, and the more so retorts of
a chat.
===  End Windows Clipboard  ===


Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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