allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (10/25/86)
Quoted from <258@puff.wisc.edu> ["Re: FidoNET Newsletter (long - 110 lines)"], by plocher@puff.wisc.edu (John Plocher)... +--------------- | This networking is done over normal voice grade phone lines, with the | originator paying the phone bills. Users can send mail to users on any | other Fido BBS in the world, with delivery overnight. Messages can | also be sent to anyone on Usenet, again, see below. Currently, FidoNet | (the name for the global network of Fidos) consists of over 1000 | systems in USA, Canada, England, Holland, (other European contries too) | Australia, Indonesia... +--------------- Along with the UANet scheme I'm working on, I am trying to integrate FidoNET with UA; this requires that the UNIX system call out, because Fido can't be made to log in to UNIX (or so I understand). +--------------- | FidoNet is organized as a structured blob :-) Anyone CAN talk to | anyone else, but default routing channels messages through hosts or hubs. +--------------- Sounds a lot like Usenet on PCs. ;-} BTW, since UA will interface with both Fido and USENET, theoretically any UA node will be a Fido/UUCP gateway: ...sys1!sys2!user@sysname.UA ...sys1!sys2!user@net.node.FIDO Note that these are only guesses; how it will really work depends on how I can write the dispatch software without having it turn into the gross hack that sendmail is... (in fact, I already have ideas on that, based on a modified regexp allowing macros). ++Brandon -- ---------------- /--/ Brandon S. Allbery UUCP: decvax!cwruecmp! / / /|\/ Tridelta Industries, Inc. ncoast!tdi2!brandon ---- -------- /-++ 7350 Corporate Blvd. PHONE: +1 216 974 9210 / / /---, ---- Mentor, Ohio 44060 SYSOP: UNaXcess/ncoast / / / / / / -- HOME -- (216) 781-6201 24 hrs. / / / / / / 6615 Center St. Apt. A1-105 ARPA: ncoast!allbery% ---- -----~ ---- Mentor, Ohio 44060-4101 case.CSNET@relay.cs.net