newsgroup regurgitation - comp.sys.apple2

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Steven Hirsch

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2

From: Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:25:50 -0400

Local: Sat, Jul 19 2008 8:25 am

Subject: Re: newsgroup regurgitation

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a2...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 18, 6:41 am, "Doug Mccomber" <doug.mccomber@1:255/36.remove-hp2-
> this> wrote:

>> Why is this echo filled with posts from comp.sys.apple2? I don't know about
>> you, but if I want to read comp.sys.apple2 I'll read it from a usenet feed.

> Yeah, that's how I felt too. It was explained to me that Fido is
> gating a few usenet groups (not just csa2) to increase traffic. In a
> way, I understand it ... not every Fido SysOp has access to a free or
> inexpensive usenet feed for their BBS so gating gets the content out
> to more boards.

> On the other hand, those who have access to Fido and whatever usenet
> is being gated, reading the dupes gets old really fast.

> And whatever happened for Fido pride? Back in the day, Fido (and a
> number of other nets, RIME for example) were pretty militant about
> keeping their networks independent, self-contained communities within
> themselves. To me, it seems Fido is using newsgroups as lifesupport
> for a few slow echos.

Boggle! Fido-net still exists?? I just assumed it faded away along with the
rise of the the internet.

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