[CrackMonkey] UW is fueld by S@t@N!

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bob Bernstein (bobbern at delphi.com):
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:41:46AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:

>> It seems like a horrible dream, now.
> 
> No nostalgia for the kinder gentler pastoral days of BBS's, huh? There are
> still a couple running in Providence. Fido 'n everything. 

I ran Tim Pozar's Fidogate on mine (1:125/27, and also in two other
Fido-technology networks), plus participated in a couple of those lame
QWK-based networks, plus even dabbled in RelayMail.  For about six
years.  Then, one fine day, I finally decided that it was all just plain
uninteresting, badly designed, and going nowhere.  About three years
into using freeware *ixes on other boxen, in fact.

Fido technology is perfect for some countries with underdeveloped
infrastructure.  Central Asia and most of South America, for example -- 
and I understand that the FidoNet nodelist is _still_ getting bigger all
the time.  But, in the longer term, it's crippled by questionable (and
incompatible) design decisions.

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