Subj : Newsgroups?
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Jack Yates
Date : Tue Jul 24 2001 12:34 pm

 JY>> Sorry, Bob, Ross;  I have about 6 POTS callers, 3 of them do not
 JY>> have internet access due to the age,  type, or lack of capability

 RC> Are they clammoring for newsgroups, if so those particular ones that
 RC> are being gated now?

Only one, so far, and that started life as a Fidonet echo.


 RC> It sounds like you want to make a case to bring all the newsgroups in
 RC> for the less fortunate,

Not at all.  If one of my downlinks were to request one or more I'd make an
effort to find it and run it through here as pass-through, unless I wanted to
read it myself.  I wouldn't classify it as or cary it as a Fido echo, though.


 RC> I thought Fidonet wanted to differentiate itself from the Internet,
 RC> what happened?

You misread my message.  Fidonet *is* different from the Internet in that it
can be accessed with 10+ year-old computers; I have three of them as downlinks.



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