-=> Sergey D. Olimpiev wrote to Bo Simonsen <=-

 SDO> Hello, Bo! How are you doing?

I'm fine thanks ;)

 BS> The biggeste difference between Internet and Fidonet, is that the  users i
 BS> running fidonet, and the ISP's and the capitalism is running the Internet.

 SDO> Well, it's your choice. You may do not use Internet for your needs or
 SDO> you may do, nobody makes you to choose. Actually you get much more
 SDO> useful things from Internet, no doubt about it. Every fidoman enters
 SDO> Internet when he needs smth fastly. Are you agree? 
 
 Yes, you're right, but sometimes if i remember the filename it's easier to
request it (if it's a file aviable on the fidonet).
 
 SDO> E.g. if you need
 SDO> some article or some document, where would you choose to go? Fidonet or
 SDO> Internet? What would you  prefer:  to wait until this article comes to
 SDO> you from some echo (you  must  subscribe  to this echo before that),
 SDO> or you  would enter an  online net  Internet and  get the needed
 SDO> document in some seconds?

That's right, but.. i think in some ways the internet is a bit cold. You
don't have a points/nodelist, you can't call a system, where you can get
a talk with the sysop, you can go onto a homepage, but it's not the same. (i
know there is telnet bbs'es, i'm a sysop of one too).

Maybe it's the thought about, we are all users of the network at the
internet, in the fidonet we are the people, there running it. People need
the RC/NC, they don't get any mail without he and he's system.

Can you see my point? :)

 SDO> This is just a wasting of time -- to compare  Fidonet and Internet.
 SDO> They are quite different and they serve  to  different  needs.  If you
 SDO> are  annoyed by capitalists,  well you can choose not to use Internet
 SDO> for your needs.  
 
I'm not paranoid about capitalists, i just think about the thought, the
internet were founded of non-capitalists, but now it's "owned" by
capitalists... So i think... "Hey! I missed a point!" 

A greate example is, for a couple of years ago, it was free to send sms's
from the internet to danish cedullar phones, it'snt anymore.. Newssites and
so on, is going to cost money.

 SDO> If you don't care about that like usually people do
 SDO> then you'll use Internet as it's the  net of the  future.  Millions of
 SDO> people  can't  imagine their lives now without Internet (and I am one
 SDO> of them  'cause  Internet is  one of my  main sources of fresh
 SDO> information and cash). If somebody doesn't like  that,  well this is
 SDO> only his/her problem.

Yeah, boys have girls friends there are living in a long distance, maybe
they don't have seen eachother, but i won't make a difference.

 SDO> --
 SDO> Sincerely, Sergey D. Olimpiev, scorpion{at}nightmail.ru, ICQ: 67444705.

Regards, Bo

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