AA> We shouldn't be comparing www and fidonet or get depressed about it and
AA> think there is no hope for a new improved fidonet.
 
Correct.
 
Now in the 30 odd years I've been in this, Fidonet has re-invented itself. It's
never called that way, but it effectively happened.
 
The best example binkd with big thanks to our Russian participants. PSTN
connections are largely impossible here, my modem got fried and I can't even
obtain anotherone anymore. Not in regular shops, not second hand (well, perhaps
if I insist well enough someone will have a dusty shoebox on a shelf in a
garage) and the "circulatory economy" (the new name for 'recycling shops') has
none either.
 
Without binkd we'd be a goner by now.
 
So someone will need to go to his\her basement or attic and re-invent how we do
business in Fidonet. Talking about it is one thing, doing it totally another.
 
There have been discussion in the past about new nodelist formats, there even
was a dedicated echo for it: NEW_NODELIST which on my system is totally dry but
I'm certain that after this message real soon a moderator message will pop-up
in it by someone grabbing it.
 
 \%/@rd

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