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On 22/06/2019 07.02, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 6/21/19 2:01 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> IIRC did wvdial just made it easy to dial via ppp. I am bold and say
>> if you wanted you could even establish a DSL connection with it.
>>
>> <https://linux.die.net/man/1/wvdial>
> 
> $ReadingList++
> 
>> I never used FIDO for news.
> 
> I think FidoNet echos had (still have) their own ecosystem with
> different content, but similar in nature to Usenet newsgroups.

Correct. Except that most were moderated. The moderator posted the rules
(like what charset to use), and could expel misbehavers. There was a
longish document with Fidonet rules. No, two docs, one generic, one for
the echoareas. The structure was hierarchical, with elected or appointed
bosses. Routes had to be defined according to resources, schedules
negotiated... All that was not automatic.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E.R.