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   Bbsing Bbs to Simon Geddes   
   Re: Hi to all   
   07 Aug 19 15:01:00   
   
   From: nospam.Bbsing.Bbs@f1.n770.z3574.fidonet.org   
      
   -=> Simon Geddes wrote to All <=-   
      
    SG> Hi. New user here. Fairly long-time C= user (but only ever Amiga), who   
    SG> caught the tail end of BBSing, ran a BBS for less than a year, misses   
    SG> it. Much more than that though, the internet has turned sour for me   
    SG> over the past few years. Want to cut it out of my life as much as is   
   I can relate to that statement. What happened! .. dang beautiful thing is   
   turning into something I don't understand, but that's the way of youth and new   
   things right.   
   The darknet is ... probably the place for me most of the time, avoid all the   
   flames of the indexed internet. .. not all bad but getting a bit sour for sure.   
      
      
    SG> possible while still having a job and not going completely Thoreau.   
    SG> Hence a renewed interest in BBSing and pre-internet technologies.   
      
    SG> Posting on CBM because the Fidonet general echo seems dead. Strange   
    SG> this one looks nice and active and the broad-topic ones aren't...is   
    SG> Fido as good as over?   
   Is it?   
   How can non-bbs systems access it and store messages?   
      
   BBSING   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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