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| From | kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.misc |
| Subject | Re: Retrocomputing |
| Date | 2024-03-21 15:19 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <uthfkk$282sn$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <86cz0npquo.fsf@building-m.net> <slrnublo5d.1cat.anthk@openbsd.my.domain> <86mszozwxg.fsf@building-m.net> <slrnubq3ar.2pvl.anthk@openbsd.my.domain> <un51s2$15n1$1@solani.org> |
On 1/4/2024 2:32 AM, okto wrote: > bozo user <anthk@disroot.org> wrote: > >> I didn't look, I think not, it looks more like an NNTP >> bridge to DOVE and FIDOnet networks, altough as I said you can >> use any NNTP client as if you were using Usenet groups. >> Discussions show up threaded in SLRN for instance, and it's >> easier to follow some conversation (far more) than using a plain >> BBS client over Telnet or Syncterm, even with ANSI additions. >> You lose access to the files' section on the BBS but for >> messaging SLRN and caching news locally it's very convenient. >> You don't have to be online and you can pull/push your news/answer >> ondemand. > > Do you have a good resource for explaining what FIDOnet and DOVE are, how > to connect to them, and what they’re good for in 2023? I have poked around, > and I still haven’t found a good “here’s what it is and why you care” > explanation. > > I do love the idea of BBS messages being available both in the slowpoke CRT > world and in the internet sphere. Dialing in on my M100 is fun, but it is > awfully tedious as a way to actually follow a conversation. Wikipedia maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet is the "big" message network between BBSes, DOVENet is a smaller network mostly made up of Synchronet BBSes (you near-automatically get connected to it when setting up a Synchronet installation) They are mostly good for discussing with other people who run BBSes.
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