Concerning _Nodelist_, Bill Cheek said to Troy H. Cheek in SCANRADIO:
 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.
 BC> 
 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?
 BC> 
 BC> Like BitNet, MCINet, SprintNet, ArpaNet and dozens of others.
What, with interactive messaging, full-time modem connections, mainframe 
computers, and sysadmins paid to take care of it all?
 BC> Fido echoes were gated to the Usenet;
Last I heard, they still were.  Also, Usenet isn't the Internet, any more 
than the World Wide Web is the Internet.
 BC> and there was at least one, if not more formal designated e-mail 
gateways.
 BC> My e-mail address used to be something like:
 BC> bill_cheek@f731.n201.fidonet.org
Taking advantage of one of the many FidoInternet gateways that have 
existed over the years, some of which still exist today.  Fidonet.org went 
the way of the dodo due to one (1) guy who shut down, officially because he 
was tired of the headaches, but rumor has it because the people whose 
mainframe he was using finally figured out who'd been tying up the modems.
I don't think one guy shutting down an unofficial service sanctioned by 
neither Internet nor Fidonet can be considered the fault (or, as you implied 
earlier, choice) of Fidonet.  But then, I don't consider a simple mail 
gateway as being "part of the Internet" to begin with.
... The older I get, the better I was.
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