Tony Langdon : nathanael culver wrote:
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>  nc> No, I think we most certainly need to keep Fidonet off the Internet.
>  nc> Just for clarification, by "Internet" here of course I mean "the Web".

Too late.  fidonet.ozzmosis.com posts everything from the echos in the clear,
since 2002.   And from the looks of it, nothing gets purged.

Very handy!   LOL


> OK, but one could argue similarly against gating Fidonet to fidonet.* or
> alt.bbs.fidonet.* newsgroups too. :)

That has been experimented with.  I tried that with the IEEE echo and
comp.org.ieee, briefly.  I quickly realized that it could become filled with
garbage.  Today comp.org.ieee is relatively clean, but there is the ocassional
troll or annoyance.

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