Subj : Re: Fidonet "zone 5"
To   : NuSkooler
From : apam
Date : Wed Sep 21 2022 14:37:06

 > FidoNet status quo. It's why so many avoid it =/

Yep. Fidonet may be larger, but I suspect many that do have it linked do
so out of a nostalgia / familiarity thing than for any kind of content.

If I were to open up a network using zone 5, i probably wouldn't call it
fidonet-africa though, I get that the person doing it is wanting to
resurrect dead networks, and perhaps doesn't realize that Fidonet-Africa
is refering to a sub network of Fidonet, rather than Fidonet the
networking technology.

Is fidonet trademarked? If so it would be interesting to see how that
works out in a court. I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know you have to
defend a trademark for it to remain valid - and with the cross over
between software and Fidonet the network (ie, many people create fidonet
software without applying to use a trade mark)

Anyway, I would suggest to miss chief, to perhaps try and create a new
network using the fidonet technology rather than trying to resurrect
other peoples dead nets - just as a courtesy incase one day they want to
come back and resurrect them themselves.

Andrew


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