What happened to FidoNet?

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Saturday, July 22. 2006

Usenet just doesn't cut it for me. Too much spam, too little quality, too much hassle. Not just once I've been thinking about the good old FidoNet and started wondering what actually happened to it.

So I googled a bit and read up on the topic. Basically the net still exists and it's not that hard to setup your own point/node and start receiving Fido message packages via the Internet. The Nodelist flags were adapted to the new situation, of course (itn,ibn). I'm currently really pondering setting up a system myself (again).

The only thing stopping me so far is one simple question: How much is really going on there nowadays? Anyone got some stats on Echomail? The Nodelist itself doesn't seem too impressive: "just" a few thousand nodes are left. I remember the file being at least four-times as big

Hopefully there's still some active FidoNet user out there, willing to answer my questions...

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Yes! I'd love to get back into it - coming home and dialing in to your local BBS to collect your latest Echomail!

And it was all interesting! Barely any spam! If you ever do get to find out if it's still busy - please keep us posted.

#1 Pilot Snipes on 2006-08-07 04:32 (Reply)

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