//Hi Oleg, //

Once on *19.02.03* you wrote about "To americans" to Olga Zhegulo

 OZ>> fast communicating via forums like fast food. There is some charm of
 OZ>> letter but there are only phrases in forums.

 OL> Uhums. :( But there are still some "few good forums". (q)

Sure. I visit one sometimes. Fans write very smart and romantic essays
about songs of their idol. But in fact forum is a different genre. 

 OZ>> And forums and mailing lists have no logical system, it's difficult to
 OZ>> find proper forum or list.

 OL> Do you mean the "echolist"?

Mailing list. Very useful thing for discussion in a group by interest.

 OZ>> Fidonet has traditions and _society_.

 OL> That's the point. That's why peole are comming in Fidonet, even being
 OL> internet-freaks for quite a long time. 

Well, I came to fidonet because of curiosity: my mate told me about it many
times. And I'm internet-freak too: if I don't know something, I search in
Internet.

 OL> You can also think about the
 OL> "spirit" of the old net

RU.ZNATOK nearly died, but all people from the echo moved to mailing lists
still having their traditions.

 OL> I have in background some nasty netmail flame on the same topic, and one
 OL> of the contra-fidonet arguments was: but the technology is simply
 OL> out-of-date. IMHO Fido-over-IP is the answer, but there's a new question
 OL> - would it be still the same community?

In my city there is no such community from ~1999, sysop parties are very
seldom. I've never seen my first sysop, but I'm not an IP-point. IMHO, it's
not the matter of technology, maybe a limit of fidonet members number (875
points in Rostov). Maybe simply way of life in Russia has changed: we work
much more now.
It reminds me a monologue from "Notre Dame de Paris": "a
book will kill a bulding". We'd better wait and see.

Bye ..
O.Z. oz{at}newmail.ru



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