MSGID: 3:633/267 622c0209   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TZUTC: 1100   
   TID: hpt/fbsd 1.9.0-cur 2021-04-15   
   If Putin continues his megalomania it's increasingly likely Russia will be   
   disconnected from the global Internet, with the government there choosing to   
   run their own Intranet instead.   
      
   Such a plan has been documented by the BBC and presumably others:   
      
   https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496  "Russia 'successfully tests' its   
   unplugged internet", 2019-12-24   
      
   https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60661987  "Russia-Ukraine: Is internet on   
   verge of break-up?", 2022-03-09   
      
   Conceivably Fido's "underground" nature may aid the prevention of   
   misinformation, but this can only go so far, and won't work if an entire   
   country unplugs itself. Then you're back to the sneakernet days. Presumably   
   the Russian government would also like inspect all their citizens snail mail   
   next.   
      
   A side-effect of Russia's disconnection will be that many of the Russian   
   developers who regularly post patches to FOSS projects like BinkD, Husky,   
   GoldED+ etc will be locked-out of the official repos on GitHub. They might   
   choose to maintain their own forks hosted on a Russian server but if   
   development continues those forks will slowly get out of sync with the main   
   repos. They may also have to abandon the idea of FidoNet altogether if it   
   becomes impossible to communicate with anyone outside Russia.   
      
   Also worth mentioning, the main BinkD repo is maintained by a Ukranian.   
      
   In the overall scheme of things most of this is trivial, and some of these   
   projects are fairly dormant anyway. But as an Australian living on the other   
   side of the world, Fido development has been basically my only contact with   
   Russian people over the years, so the above thoughts popped into my head.   
      
   My thoughts are with the Ukrainians currently under attack, and the many   
   Russians who oppose the invasion.   
      
   Peace.   
      
   --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20180707   
    * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/330 331   
   SEEN-BY: 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 317 424 426 428   
   SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/5832 266/512 282/1038 292/854 301/1 317/3   
   SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/267 280 281 412   
   SEEN-BY: 633/416 509 712/848   
   PATH: 633/267 280 229/426