Subj : DISTINCTIVE RING BOX NEEDED
To   : William McBrine
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Tue Aug 15 2000 11:56 pm

Hello William!

15 Aug 00 12:51, William McBrine wrote to Darren Gibbs:


 WM> Let me adopt a middle position... Apart from those BBSes with an
 WM> actual web (http) interface, telnettable BBSes aren't part of the
 WM> _web_. But they _do_ have URLS; e.g., "telnet:juge.com". :-)

You may also want to visit www.juge.com.  The same box will show you many of 
the same files.  Sound like a telnetable BBS that =is= part of the web to me.

 WM> "mailto:darren.gibbs@f888.n712.z3.fidonet.org". So, one has to be
 WM> careful about confusing "URL" with "web address", because URLs
 WM> actually encompass a lot more than just the web.

URLs were created to be incorporated into HTML and parsed by browsers on the 
web.  In that sense, they are =nothing but= "web addresses", which must be 
parsed and translated to "internet addresses", which must be parsed and 
translated into "TCP/IP addresses", before the resource can be accessed.
"telnet://juge.com" is an URL, which your browser translates into "telnet 
juge.com" as a commandline to launch your telnet client with the address it 
expects to see.

Semantics aside, I agree that FidoNet is not a part of the web or internet. 
They are all separate networks with different features, protocols, and software 
requirements.  Some folks just choose to participate in several of them at the 
same time.

..\\ike

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