From: nada@nada.com   
      
   "Day Brown"  wrote in message   
   > Has Fido looked into serving as a backup network in case of inet crash?   
      
   Fidonet is a mere shadow of its former self.  I can't even remember the last   
   time I dialed into a BBS.  I bet it's been 1998 or earlier.  I've even   
   forgotten all of the modem AT commands.  Fidonet almost collapsed under its   
   own weight when the nodelist got out of control around '93 or '94 -- the WWW   
   kept that from happening.  But a total Internet crash is becoming less and   
   less likely with each passing day, and modem sales are down and they'll   
   never go back up as always-on connections become more affordable.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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