Re: TOT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris Walters wrote:
>>>> Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
>> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over FidoNET and wondering
> if there might be a growing need for it? Not in terms of spam but in terms of
> privacy? Since it wasn't going through commercial entities and was an
> informal net there seems to be a smaller chance of something like the FBIs
> attempt to drop sniffer boxes into the larger ISPs.
Well, it would certainly slow everything down. As for privacy, IIRC the
NSA recently admitted that they were (they claim they're not now)
monitoring all modem and BBS traffic. And now that the Bill of Rights
(in US) has been officially shredded by the patriot acts, any agent can
come in and seize your computer on the suspicion you may be doing
something wrong. There'd be a big chance of this if you were a Sysop of
a BBS on a private network.
That being said, I do occasionally get nostalgic over FidoNET, and the
BBS I used to run.
Regards,
Chris
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