Yo! Troy:
Tuesday June 24 1997 20:13, Troy H. Cheek wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>> FidoNet is a network.....once upon a time, one of the constituents of
 BC>> the Internet.  Through its own fault, it dropped out of the Internet.
 TC> You've stated this a couple of times before.  Aside from the occasional
 TC> Fidonet/Internet mail gateway, when and how exactly was Fidonet part of
 TC> the Internet?
Like BitNet, MCINet, SprintNet, ArpaNet and dozens of others.  Fido echoes 
were gated to the Usenet; and there was at least one, if not more formal 
designated e-mail gateways.  My e-mail address used to be something like:
bill_cheek@f731.n201.fidonet.org
Now there is no net-wide gateway for anything.  There are some local nets who 
port their mail in and out....but not all nor even most do it anymore.
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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