Post AZw1N6ftwpFPflDHyC by leebennett@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AZviWKGsrqOZJoC6S0 by leo@twit.social
2023-09-19T16:03:39Z
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I love the simple FidoNet BBS rules. There are only two:• Don't be excessively annoying.• Don't be easily annoyed. I was a FidoNet Sysop in the mid 90s and I can verify that the rules worked. Word to live by. https://wiki.c2.com/?FidonetRules
(DIR) Post #AZvigj0XkjZWvuVf1s by TeamAnts@mastodon.social
2023-09-19T16:05:32Z
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@leo My tagline used to be something to the effect I survived the great Fidonet gun warz (debate)
(DIR) Post #AZvihPxA5BPu7sG4EC by lordjeff@mastodon.social
2023-09-19T16:05:33Z
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@leo good times... ;)
(DIR) Post #AZvkHAhoLlThDQgtHM by sfoguj@sfba.social
2023-09-19T16:23:14Z
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@leo Mid 90s? I'll have whatever you were having between that and the mid-80s. 😄
(DIR) Post #AZvkHw46GiEY6ATr2u by drahardja@sfba.social
2023-09-19T16:23:22Z
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@leo Ah, FidoNet, how I miss it.FidoNet was my connection across the Pacific when I lived in Singapore in the 1980s. A wealthy patron in Singapore and another in Australia agreed to call each other every evening (at very expensive international long-distance rates) to sync FidoNet messages over regular telephone modem. The person in Australia had connections to the US to sync messages there as well. As a result, I could post for free to San Francisco and beyond.I never knew the people who did this, but they connected an island nation across the ocean.
(DIR) Post #AZvm7UTMCbTvXARQoK by AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy
2023-09-19T16:43:59Z
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@leo Same here, early 90's...The node was running with dial-in on an ISDN line, so two connects at the same time.
(DIR) Post #AZvmM3b2PRAkWTyoeO by rusboldt@twit.social
2023-09-19T16:46:37Z
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@leo I ran an 8 line BBS from 1983 until 1997. I connected it to FidoNet in 1988. First 14/135 then 283/135. I connected it to the Internet in 1995. Users could log onto the BBS from the Internet or exit the BBS onto the Internet.
(DIR) Post #AZvnVFkYgxVemENkJ6 by chipmcdonald@lor.sh
2023-09-19T16:59:28Z
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@leo The technical entry barrier, like here, helped diffuse the malcontents. I moderated a political forum back then on a Fido network on the East Coast, and it was much more civil than anywhere today, despite being pretty bipartisan. Likewise, Usenet was even more civil - until the day AOL threw the switch. Anyone remember "netiquette".....?
(DIR) Post #AZvnm5WpworNzzzWrY by stefankunze@twit.social
2023-09-19T17:02:29Z
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@leo I love thinking back to the FidoNet time. However, even then Sysops had some trouble. Remember the division between Fido Light and Fido Classic? Still - good times it was.
(DIR) Post #AZvoz1jZT1cNwtgIjo by adamsdesk@fosstodon.org
2023-09-19T17:16:05Z
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@leo I miss those days. FidoNet was great.
(DIR) Post #AZvrQqzfC2WweebZAm by terrorskull@twit.social
2023-09-19T17:43:30Z
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@leo only problem is that I feel perpetually annoyed because *gestures broadly*If people generally followed these rules a lot of things would be much better I feel.
(DIR) Post #AZw1N6ftwpFPflDHyC by leebennett@mastodon.social
2023-09-19T19:34:52Z
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@leo I can more or less corroborate from the viewpoint of Wildcat! BBSes. I co-sysop'd a rather large one based in Michigan for a bit more than a year, early 90s.
(DIR) Post #AZxFqB3UKjgUAkxhfU by jonw@twit.social
2023-09-20T09:51:43Z
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@leo If you were a sysop, you were in the sysop-only echoes and you know it was a flame fest. It still is (I periodically fire up a BBS every 5-10 years). I once wrote a Simple Marhines Forum/Fidonet Echo bridge. It moved echoes from things like Blue Wave reader to the web. https://boingboing.net/2005/02/10/fidonet-webinterface.html
(DIR) Post #AZymwIUN6Ewubu1RNg by GQB@newsie.social
2023-09-19T22:53:48Z
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@leo Yeah, works with civilized people. Have you looked around lately?
(DIR) Post #AaiFqYsGu5tzAMEWKu by infosec_jcp@infosec.exchange
2023-10-13T02:03:14Z
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@leo That's tight dawg. 'Ruff 4 loife. 🖖
(DIR) Post #AaiKmwUJfNpZ0z7cIq by moelassus@mastodon.social
2023-10-13T02:58:35Z
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@leo Cheers Leo from the Sysop of The Banana Republic (1:500/104) circa 1986-1992. I loved those simple FIDOnet rules.
(DIR) Post #AaiN2LUVBiUyoQgJ2e by mike@thecanadian.social
2023-10-13T03:23:47Z
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@leo In many ways, the fediverse feels like those days.
(DIR) Post #AaiPco4yZgbNoKFu1Q by simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
2023-10-13T03:52:48Z
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@leo @jerry Perhaps good rules, or at least suggested guidelines, to incorporate for Infosec.Exchange ? 🙂🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #AaiPvlI3AWDyf8PR20 by ellie@ellieayla.net
2023-10-13T03:56:13Z
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@leo It was simpler time. 🥲
(DIR) Post #AaigiQduK3xQ57rRMO by dymaxion@infosec.exchange
2023-10-13T07:04:17Z
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@leoIt's amazing how simple the rules can be when you have a small enough and culturally homogenous enough system.I'm really glad we live in an exponentially bigger world now, even just in this corner of the Internet. It would be for the best if folks stopped trying to apply the old rules to the new world and understood why they can't work.
(DIR) Post #AalKO85LzezXDaUgWe by cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
2023-10-14T13:38:13Z
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@leoyes, i recall pre-algorithmic-amplified interaction was so much simpler.
(DIR) Post #AaluHE7Sl1igFsUKuG by chris@abraham.su
2023-10-14T20:20:23Z
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@leoThe second one's always the rub.