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Re: OT Re: Amateur Peering

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On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:51:25 -0700, Fae Empress wrote:

> On 2026-09-18 6:18 p.m., noel wrote:
> 
>> Some people insist in living in the stone ages, and Fido doesnt seem to
>> have realised its own policies are whats seen its demise, like this,
>> forbidden to gate areas, thats right forbid them, heaven forbid people
>> discover Fidonet by finding their discussions on usenet, not advertise
>> and prevent others discovering them - not that I can imagine there
>> being many in 2026 anyway but I confess to not giving a damn enough to
>> go looking :)
> 
> A couple years back I was working on a Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica,
> etc.) bridge into a test FTN and it worked great. Groups were based on
> #hashtags. Unfortunately, there were WAY too many posts coming into the
> groups and I had to shut it down.
> 
> Fidonet can remain dead for all I care, but I don't see a reason that
> other networks can't grow and evolve.
> 
> I think connecting to something more forum based, ie. Lemmy, might be a
> better option rather than a hashtag based system.

I always more or less considered usenet as Fidonets replacement, because 
before usenet, thats what we used, problem with forums is, in what I've 
seen in the past, html code in posts - html is blocked here, if I want to 
waste storage  and have 75K articles instead of 3K, I'll re-enable 
binaries before allowing html :)

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Amateur Peering IntraNIC <intranicnetwork@gmail.com> - 2026-09-17 08:54 -0700
  Re: Amateur Peering "Roberto CORRADO" <i@secure.corradoroberto.it> - 2026-09-17 18:32 +0200
    Re: Amateur Peering IntraNIC <intranicnetwork@gmail.com> - 2026-09-17 09:41 -0700
      Re: Amateur Peering "Roberto CORRADO" <i@secure.corradoroberto.it> - 2026-09-18 20:52 +0200
  Re: Amateur Peering Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> - 2026-09-17 21:02 +0200
    Re: Amateur Peering Madison <madison.brooks@skeetchestn.ca> - 2026-09-17 13:47 -0700
      Re: Amateur Peering Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> - 2026-09-17 23:29 +0200
        Re: Amateur Peering Madison <madison.brooks@skeetchestn.ca> - 2026-09-17 14:48 -0700
          Re: Amateur Peering Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> - 2026-09-18 12:58 -0500
            Re: Amateur Peering IntraNIC <intranicnetwork@gmail.com> - 2026-09-19 18:09 -0700
              Re: Amateur Peering noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-09-20 11:28 +1000
  Re: Amateur Peering Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> - 2026-09-18 12:44 -0500
    Re: Amateur Peering "IntraNIC intranicnetwork"@gmail.com - 2026-09-18 10:47 -0700
    OT  Re: Amateur Peering noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-09-19 11:18 +1000
      Re: OT Re: Amateur Peering Fae Empress <admin@mail.su.gy> - 2026-09-19 15:51 -0700
        Re: OT Re: Amateur Peering noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-09-20 11:17 +1000

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