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|    Charles Stephenson to Marc Lewis    |
|    Re: Hello!    |
|    27 Nov 18 23:58:19    |
      On 11/27/18, Marc Lewis said the following...                ML> IMO, Charles, FidoNet is, with the exception of some of the garbage that        ML> gets imported from Usenet, one of the only places you can go, read and        ML> post to your heart's content without fear of being snooped on by        ML> whatever entities are busy gathering and scattering your personal data.        ML> Facebook being a prime example... And without the almost ever-present        ML> Internet trolls posting scurrilous, useless junk.        ML>                      I agree....now. It wasn't always like that, I think with it being less       traffic than in the 'wonderful 90's' all the rif-raf kinda left FidoNet alone       too. There does seem to be more BBSes than actual BBS users now-a-days. It's       alot easier to set one up than back in the day.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Linux/64)        * Origin: The Amiga Frontier:theamigafrontier.ddns.net:2023 (1:216/16)    |
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