Hallo Olga.

19 䥢 03 01:28, Olga Zhegulo schrieb an Sergey Ermakov:

 OZ> Internet it's not so, conferences are small part of its services.

Unfortunally.

 SE>> So, it would be compared in this case - we usually use fidonet and
 SE>> internet with the same ames..

 OZ> Me - not. I use fidonet for echoes, to listen what people say about
 OZ> interesting topics. Conferences in Internet are dying, people choose fast
 OZ> communicating via forums like fast food. There is some charm of letter but
 OZ> there are only phrases in forums.

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

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

Do you mean the "echolist"?

 OZ> Fidonet has traditions and _society_.

That's the point. That's why peole are comming in Fidonet, even being
internet-freaks for quite a long time. You can also think about the
"spirit" of the old net, of the internet of that times, as the
web was not mistaken for internet, lynx was the ultimative browser and it
were no HTML-emails. *sigh*

 OZ> Internet supports some gatherings and clubs, but there is no Internet
 OZ> policy! In fact, it is the only choice for poor people having no
 OZ> internet at work/school. But it has different set of services than
 OZ> Internet: no web, no irc, no icq. BTW, you have much less chance to
 OZ> get virus via netmail than by email.

Yep.

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the contra-fidonet arguments was: but the technology is simply out-of-date.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

Greetingz Oleg                  [Annual identity crisis]
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