MM> Hey, anybody knows, where I can subscribe to the Fido conferences
  > at the Global NetWork (Internet)?  This is very important to me,
  > I tried to find some, but I have found only Russian NewsGroups.

 Real Fido?  There are several possible hierarchies.  There's
 the "fido.*" set (with a "fido.ger.*" subset), a "fido7.*" set
 (with various subsets like "fido7.kharkov.*" and "fido7.kiev.*"
 "fido7.ru.*"), and loads of other newsgroups with "fido" in
 the name.  Most of them seem empty at the places I've checked,
 though.  You need to check out free news servers.  They're
 listed at places like 
 and , and can have anywhere
 from a few dozen to over 70,000 newsgroups.

MM> in Russia Internet access is very expensive, as I think:
  >
  > 1-1.5 $ per hour
  > 35-100 $ for unlimited access
  >
  > And I'd like to know, how do you think, does Internet
  > access very expensive in Russia, or the prices is too low?

 Depends what you're comparing to.  Britain has free internet as
 a result of price wars gone to extremes.  Other places have free
 access if you use programs that keep ads on part of the screen
 all the time.  General access in the US is around $18/month
 unlimited these days, but you can get it as cheap as $8 or as
 high as $40 depending on what you want to pay.

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