On 23 Dec 05  19:23:52, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: bragging rights   
      
    DC> The i-net has taken away the personalism that was and is FIDO.     
      
    NB> The newsgroups that seem to have managed to hang on with some degree   
    NB> of flourishing are the ones in which the participants tended to act as   
    NB> though it was a Fido echo, answering most in the newsgroup instead of   
    NB> shooting off their replies via email privately, unless there were some   
      
   But it's still not FIDO!     
      
    NB> good reason to MAKE it private.  Gen.medieval has flourished, as it   
    NB> became mostly a scholarly public forum, although not without a degree   
    NB> of spam and trolls...  I have found some very good information there,   
      
   That is one thing that FIDO has always fought against.     
      
    NB> But by and large, the newgroups, even for genealogy, lost most of the   
    NB> personality and personable-ness that had been the rule in the Fido   
    NB> echos.  I had had my reservations as to whether the Inet was going to   
      
   And that's why I stay with FIDO.     
      
      
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