-=> Quoting Danny Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 12-24-05  16:54 <=-   
      
    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   
      
    DC> But it's still not FIDO!     
      
   True enough.  The point I was making was that the newgroups that most   
   resembled Fido were the ones that managed to keep going the best.   
      
    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,   
      
    DC> That is one thing that FIDO has always fought against.     
       
   Yes, and the lack of spam and trolls (mostly) is part of what does make   
   FIDO much preferable and more enjoyable, and why the Inet is still not   
   FIDO...  :)   
      
    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   
      
    DC> And that's why I stay with FIDO.     
      
   Likewise.  And also to avoid the afore-mentioned spam and trolls.  I   
   have no desire to be actually using the newsgroups directly on the   
   internet, even though now it is possible for me to be doing it.  Reading   
   the few I do, through the RIME-gating on Chowda, is sufficient.  :)   
      
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