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.