XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-03 04:52, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 15:51:29 +0100, "Carlos E.R."   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Oh, and here we had (have?) to pay local phone calls, so we tried to   
   >> make our calls to Fidonet or Internet as short as possible.   
   >   
   > There was a point at which all of South Africa's internetional   
   > internet traffic was on a 9600 bps dial-up line via Fidonet, between a   
   > BBS at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and Randy Bush's BBS in Oregon   
   > USA. When TCP/IP connections became more widely available, it was the   
   > other way round -- Fidonet packets were exchanged over the Internet by   
   > FTP.   
   >   
   > That was also the time of the distinction between the Internet   
   > (TCP/IP) and the internet, which included Fidonet technology networks.   
   >   
   > Fido techniology was developed after uucp, and was more sophisticated:   
   > in nested replies it would show the initials of who had posted what,   
   > so it was easier to follow conversations. I miss echomail for that   
   > reason. And yes, there wqas a lot of social chitchat, so FTNs were, at   
   > least in part, social networks.   
      
   Yes, I also miss the initials in the quotes. I have seen some people do   
   that now, but it is a mess because current mail clients (or usenet) like   
   Thunderbird do not support it.   
      
   I also miss that all groups were moderated. There was no spam. Every   
   person was real.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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