fidonet

If we all went back to fidonet, AP would get mad because someone converted their FTS-001 crashmail packet into a usenet post, Netmail, and QWKMail packet ..

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

Before access to the Internet became available to non-military, non-academic users in 1985, there were two ways for communicating -- uucp, which was a unix-based mail and file transfer network set up over phone lines, and fidonet, the dial-up BBS systems.

qwertylicious 2006

For example, were the above address in Germany, you would end it with "fido. de" instead of "fidonet. org."

The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 2: E-mail 1994

The official price of the book is 32.00 plus postage but to those electronically aware people reading this via a bbs, fidonet or usenet, I have decided that the price of the book will be 25.00 pounds Including postage.

Syndicated Hack Watch Phoenix Program Kills Sky's Access Control 1994

He just wrote the fidonet compatable stuff and plugged it into his bulletin board.

The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993

He defined the fidonet as we know it today and held it together for more than a couple of years.

The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993

Then to dissolve this ugly mess we basicly got them to agree to put it to a vote of the fidonet nodelist at large.

The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993

The NCs and RCs would make their own little fragments of the nodelist and would fidonet mail it to Saint Louis where Ken Kaplin would compile it into one big nodelist, then Ken would mail out a copy of that file to all the NCs.

The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993

The point to point mail was all well and fine but in fact the only people who could use it were sysops because you had to have access to that rather internal overhead message area in the fidonet and 2 because it required relatively speaking sophisticated knowledge of network topology was.

The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993

But he wrote seadog which was a fidonet interface essentially without a bulletin board which was great.

The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993