In article , "Bob Quinn"
writes:


There is a new web site with interactive discussion for shortwave and radio
in general. Anyone is welcome to participate. Pay a visit to
http://www.toad.net/~quinnbf and check it out.




Thanks !!

(Maximo Lachman) wrote in message ...
Bob Quinn wrote:
There is a new web site with interactive discussion for shortwave and radio
in general. Anyone is welcome to participate. Pay a visit to
http://www.toad.net/~quinnbf and check it out.

Okay. But it's not a text-only, swl-only group. There is such a group on
both fidonet and freenet, and there is no off topic flooding in either
place, but that's because there's no traffic. Freenet doesn't share
its posts w/other freenets, whereas fidonet does share its posts
w/other fidonets.
I'm not trying to be off-topic, and this may get "the dumb question of
the year award". I thought fidonet (in which I used to a regular
user) bit the dust a number of years ago, and is defunct. If not, how
can I access it?
Fred Burgess

Fred Burgess ) writes:
I'm not trying to be off-topic, and this may get "the dumb question of
the year award". I thought fidonet (in which I used to a regular
user) bit the dust a number of years ago, and is defunct. If not, how
can I access it?
Fred Burgess

I'm not sure what state it's in, it certainly has suffered in recent
years, but various BBS's do still exist. At least some of them are
now online, so you can telnet into them. One here in Montreal
is juxtaposition.dynip.com Telnet to it, and go through the registration
process, just like if you actually dialled in, and you'll get access
to Fidonet. From there, you can likely find a local BBS.

The website for Fidonet is http://www.fidonet.org

Michael

Fred Burgess ) writes:
(Maximo Lachman) wrote
Okay. But it's not a text-only, swl-only group. There is such a group on
both fidonet and freenet, and there is no off topic flooding in either
place, but that's because there's no traffic. Freenet doesn't share
its posts w/other freenets, whereas fidonet does share its posts
w/other fidonets.

I'm not trying to be off-topic, and this may get "the dumb question of
the year award". I thought fidonet (in which I used to a regular
user) bit the dust a number of years ago, and is defunct. If not, how
can I access it?

Try:
www.bbsnets.com or
www.docsplace.org - for a test run try:
telnet://bbs.docsplace.org
and make sure that your terminal client is using ANSI emulation.

There is a new web site with interactive discussion for shortwave and radio
in general. Anyone is welcome to participate. Pay a visit to
http://www.toad.net/~quinnbf and check it out.

(Maximo Lachman) wrote in message ...

Try:
www.bbsnets.com or
www.docsplace.org - for a test run try:
telnet://bbs.docsplace.org
and make sure that your terminal client is using ANSI emulation.
Ok, thanks for your reply, I will give them a tyry.
Fred Burgess

Fred Burgess ) writes:
(Maximo Lachman) wrote in message ...

Try:
www.bbsnets.com or
www.docsplace.org - for a test run try:
telnet://bbs.docsplace.org
and make sure that your terminal client is using ANSI emulation.
Ok, thanks for your reply, I will give them a tyry.
Fred Burgess


The "HAM" group is fairly active on fidonet, and you should be able
to get it from any bbs w/fidonet. There can be a great variation
from bbs to bbs, so it's worth shopping around. Some of them will
offer filtered usenet groups, and you can probably get the sysop
to block the current flooding, by modifying the filter, if it
isn't blocking that stuff. Otherwise, all fidonet groups are
moderated.