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   Hello andrew,   
      
   12 Mar 22 12:51, you wrote to All:   
      
    ac> If Putin continues his megalomania it's increasingly likely Russia   
    ac> will be disconnected from the global Internet, with the government   
    ac> there choosing to run their own Intranet instead.   
      
    ac> Such a plan has been documented by the BBC and presumably others:   
      
    ac> https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496  "Russia 'successfully   
    ac> tests' its unplugged internet", 2019-12-24   
      
    ac> https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60661987  "Russia-Ukraine: Is   
    ac> internet on verge of break-up?", 2022-03-09   
      
    ac> Conceivably Fido's "underground" nature may aid the prevention of   
    ac> misinformation, but this can only go so far, and won't work if an   
    ac> entire country unplugs itself. Then you're back to the sneakernet   
    ac> days. Presumably the Russian government would also like inspect all   
    ac> their citizens snail mail next.   
      
    ac> A side-effect of Russia's disconnection will be that many of the   
    ac> Russian developers who regularly post patches to FOSS projects like   
    ac> BinkD, Husky, GoldED+ etc will be locked-out of the official repos on   
    ac> GitHub. They might choose to maintain their own forks hosted on a   
    ac> Russian server but if development continues those forks will slowly   
    ac> get out of sync with the main repos. They may also have to abandon the   
    ac> idea of FidoNet altogether if it becomes impossible to communicate   
    ac> with anyone outside Russia.   
      
    ac> Also worth mentioning, the main BinkD repo is maintained by a   
    ac> Ukranian.   
      
    ac> In the overall scheme of things most of this is trivial, and some of   
    ac> these projects are fairly dormant anyway. But as an Australian living   
    ac> on the other side of the world, Fido development has been basically my   
    ac> only contact with Russian people over the years, so the above thoughts   
    ac> popped into my head.   
      
    ac> My thoughts are with the Ukrainians currently under attack, and the   
    ac> many Russians who oppose the invasion.   
      
   they can switch back to plain old telephone lines an can collect fidonet   
   via that :)   
      
   Regards,   
   --   
   dp   
      
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