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- From: tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: USENET news <-> Fido echoes
- Keywords: FIDO gateway newsgroups conversion
- Message-ID: <X719VB2w165w@clovis.felton.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:57:44 PST
- References: <ZB4TVB1w165w@visavis.uucp>
- Organization: Yucca Flats II in Felton, CA
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- abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:
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- > Allowing people to READ-only is not scabbing. Information flow is only
- > one way.
-
- I began by not knowing why anyone with Internet access would diddle with
- Fido, and for certain I know not why anyone on any occasion would
- read-only Fido echos. It ain't exactly the Library of Congress, and
- late in my Fido incarnation I found I was only posting and looking for
- answers regarding the myriads of utilities necessary to mask netmail and
- echos as mail and news. When I dropped Fido, life simplified.
-
- In any event, we're talking of expense here, and the boss node has only
- a share of the echo pool, and the charges everywhere are greater for
- incoming than outgoing. The world is funneled through the net into your
- node, while the most active board in Lima, Ohio, will put out only a
- small percentage of what comes in.
-
- In the two nets I was involved with over time, there was attention paid
- strictly to incoming accounting, whereas the outgoing was minimal (even
- in San Jose, CA) comparatively and in one case was simply born by our
- Net Echo Coordinator.
-
- Points were generally discouraged, anyway, and were seen mostly as a
- means of bringing some kid up to speed who just saw his first modem
- yesterday...
-
- > Personally I see no difference in allowing callers to a point BBS and
- > READING Fido messages, and allowing people to read the contents of those
- > messages directly at the terminal!
-
- There ain't no Nielson system to monitor users, so attention generally
- is paid whenever the mail moves over the lines.
-
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