Hello Trifle!   
      
   06 Apr 2012 20:42, Trifle Menot wrote to Scott Street:   
      
    ->> to Usenet years ago.  I always thought and still do, that while POTS   
    ->> Fidonet servers/services will disappear, the conferencing system   
    ->> would survive as a friendlier alternative to Usenet.   
      
   usenet qouting ^^^   
      
    TM> Text message Usenet is almost as dead as FIDO.   
      
   usenet died when my isp killed binaries   
      
    TM> Nothing will bring back the glory days, but a FIDO style network could   
   still be interesting to hobbyists.   
      
   lol, none have a life in fidonet anymore, not even me :)   
      
    TM> Problem with FIDO is the politics and cumbersome organization.   
      
   aha, its not lack of modem users ?   
      
    TM> The only way forwared is to abandon FIDO and its policy.   
      
   its not very helpfull to trow out the old modem and get binkd ?   
       
    TM> Start over with the same technology but none of the politics or   
   organizational structure.   
      
   no thanks, isdn was horrible for me in cost of money, but sure so is anything   
   as today, it cost money as always, but life time is shourtned, tv build in   
   1960 worked in 1970'es, how long does your dvb-* something work ?   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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