On 23 Dec 05  19:23:52, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: bragging rights

 DC> The i-net has taken away the personalism that was and is FIDO.  

 NB> The newsgroups that seem to have managed to hang on with some degree
 NB> of flourishing are the ones in which the participants tended to act as
 NB> though it was a Fido echo, answering most in the newsgroup instead of
 NB> shooting off their replies via email privately, unless there were some

But it's still not FIDO!  

 NB> good reason to MAKE it private.  Gen.medieval has flourished, as it
 NB> became mostly a scholarly public forum, although not without a degree
 NB> of spam and trolls...  I have found some very good information there,

That is one thing that FIDO has always fought against.  

 NB> But by and large, the newgroups, even for genealogy, lost most of the
 NB> personality and personable-ness that had been the rule in the Fido
 NB> echos.  I had had my reservations as to whether the Inet was going to

And that's why I stay with FIDO.  


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