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  • Hello!

    From Charles Stephenson@1:226/17 to All on Thu Nov 15 08:31:49 2018
    You want new posters... I'm one! :)
    Regards,
    KrUpTiOn
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Charles Stephenson on Fri Nov 16 09:26:00 2018
    Charles Stephenson wrote to All <=-

    You want new posters... I'm one! :)

    Welcome!



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  • From Charles Stephenson@1:216/16 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Nov 17 18:27:46 2018
    On 11/16/18, Kurt Weiske said the following...

    You want new posters... I'm one! :)

    Welcome!



    Thanks :) I DO miss the old days of lots of busy FidoNet Echos.... :(

    Regards

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  • From Marc Lewis@1:396/45 to Charles Stephenson on Tue Nov 27 13:17:41 2018
    Hello Charles.

    <On 17Nov2018 18:27 Charles Stephenson (1:216/16) wrote a message to Kurt Weiske regarding Re: Hello! >

    You want new posters... I'm one! :)
    Welcome!

    Thanks :) I DO miss the old days of lots of busy FidoNet Echos....
    :(

    IMO, Charles, FidoNet is, with the exception of some of the garbage that gets imported from Usenet, one of the only places you can go, read and post to your heart's content without fear of being snooped on by whatever entities are busy gathering and scattering your personal data. Facebook being a prime example... And without the almost ever-present Internet trolls posting scurrilous, useless
    junk.

    Best regards,
    Marc

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  • From Charles Stephenson@1:216/16 to Marc Lewis on Tue Nov 27 23:58:18 2018
    On 11/27/18, Marc Lewis said the following...

    IMO, Charles, FidoNet is, with the exception of some of the garbage that gets imported from Usenet, one of the only places you can go, read and post to your heart's content without fear of being snooped on by
    whatever entities are busy gathering and scattering your personal data. Facebook being a prime example... And without the almost ever-present Internet trolls posting scurrilous, useless junk.



    I agree....now. It wasn't always like that, I think with it being less
    traffic than in the 'wonderful 90's' all the rif-raf kinda left FidoNet alone too. There does seem to be more BBSes than actual BBS users now-a-days. It's alot easier to set one up than back in the day.

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  • From Leo Kosov@1:317/2 to Marc Lewis on Fri Nov 30 06:07:32 2018
    IMO, Charles, FidoNet is, with the exception of some of the garbage that gets imported from Usenet, one of the only places you can go, read and post to your heart's content without fear of being snooped on by
    whatever entities are busy gathering and scattering your personal data.

    There's a large user base that's looking for that, as they abandon Facebook
    and their ilk. But none of them seem to know that FidoNet, or FSXNet, or the like, still exist. Heck, most seem surprised that USENET still exists. :/ And so rather than come to BBSes and FidoNet, they go to public-access *nix
    systems like SDF or Grex, or completely reinvent the wheel (Hashbang, the "Tildeverse", et al), spreading an already fairly small audience/user base
    even thinner.

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Charles Stephenson on Wed Jan 30 10:05:41 2019
    Hello Charles.

    17 Nov 18 18:27, you wrote to Kurt Weiske:

    Thanks :) I DO miss the old days of lots of busy FidoNet Echos.... :(

    Well, it's up to us to keep the echoes busy now! :)

    Flavio

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