Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!isishq!doug
From: doug@isishq.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: FidoNet and digital anarchism
Message-ID: <823.23960373@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 2 Dec 88 07:08:19 GMT
Organization: International Student Information Service -- Headquarters
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 RWE>From: evans-ron@CS.Yale.EDU (Ron Warren Evans) 
 
 RWE> 
 RWE>GENERAL: 
 RWE>I've been following the discussion of revolutions and Fidonet. 
 RWE> For years now 
 RWE>I have had access to both BITNET and the InterNet on my school 
 RWE>computers, so 
 RWE>I never was too concerned with Fidonet, but now I am leaving 
 RWE>school.  I never 
 RWE>was able to figure out how to send mail on Fido.  I also see 
 RWE>that Fidonet is 
 RWE>connected to InterNet now (when I first learned this, my brain 
 RWE>exploded), and 
 RWE>I see that some FidoNet users are receiving netnews. 
 RWE> 
 RWE>TO FIDONET READNEWS USERS: 
 RWE>What I want to know is: is netnews free on your system, or a 
 RWE>for-pay arrangement 
 
Short answer: it is quite possible to run both a fidonet and uucp 
site on one machine. Thus anything and everything that is 
available to either, is available to both. I'm doing it. With DOS. 
 
In uucp this is known as isishq, in fido, this is known as 
1:221/162. It's the same box. 
 
Long answer: it's taken several years to develop this capacity 
and there are still some problems with it. If you want to connect 
to my box (using TB modem) I'd be happy to oblige.  
 
Otherwise, you're on your own mate.  
 
Now, to the several dozen people who have written me direct 
regarding cheap link ups to uucp and usenet, my apologies. I'm 
overwhelmed and totally and completely busy. I hope to post 
something of use in the near future, to answer 100 questions all 
at once. 
 
I've only got one body and one brain, and only two hands. There 
are only 24 hours in the day and I can't keep up with the flood 
in my mailbox lately. 
 
This is the revolution and it seems like I've just stumbled into 
it.  
 
But yes, you can do it. Leastways *I* don't seen to be having any 
problem doing it. (other than the volume of mail, that is) 
 
=Doug 


--  
 Doug Thompson - via FidoNet node 1:221/162
     UUCP: ...!watmath!isishq!doug
 Internet: doug@isishq.FIDONET.ORG