[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Policy & Perspective on its Lists
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:59:59 EDT
Not very well. Apparently that comes from the days when I regarded
computers as something that only other people used and not anyone I knew. I
have
enough trouble understanding how to use current computers.
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies
the end.
" Leon Trotsky
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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Thanks for asking, Roger. I hope you understood the answer better than I
did. Not important. My braiin's too old.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and
books-being-scanned list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Policy & Perspective on its Lists
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Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 5:46 PM
fidonet was a worldwide collection of dialup BBSes. It operated by
having each system call into a local hub and pass traffic back and
forth. Hubs would then transfer with their neighbors etc. It was
capable of e-mail, group discussion and file transfer (though as far
as I know the last was rarely used due to cost and speed constraints).
Slow but relatively effective for the time period.
Similar in a lot of ways to usenet, and especially the pre internet
days when usenet was delivered via the unix-to-unix copy protocol.
Just like uucp messages could easily require being forwarded by many
hosts before ending up at the final destination. Unlike uucp due to
the region-hub-node scheme of fidonet determining the route was quite
a bit simpler.
UUCP often required a user to manually determine a route, and even
worse often multiple routes in order to ensure that a message actually
reached the destination.
At this point its only lasting contribution is likely the first rule
of fidonet which I already quoted. "Do not be excessively annoying;
do not be excessively annoyed."
I'm not familiar with bluewave.
On 9/10/09,
Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
<Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> wrote:
> I know not what either fidonet or bluewave are. Anyone care to explain?
>
>
> "The end may justify the means as long as there is something that
justifies
> the end.
> " Leon Trotsky
>
> The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
>
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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> Hi all,
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> Oh my, FIDOnet, that makes me feel old. I haven't thought about
> FIDOnet or Bluewave or anything like that in years. Ah, those were the
> days. That was twenty years ago! <grinning> If Pavi thinks that
> Elizabeth is a problem, anybody remember Greg See-Kee from the
> Disability net or Whosie, hmmm, Tandy Way? When you've cut your teeth
> on those two flamers, anything said by anybody else is a mere candle
> flame, not a bonfire. I could tell you stories...Ah, but this is not
> the place. Suffice it to say that I agree with Soronel.. Amazing, my
> delete key still works, after five computers and twenty years.
>
> Ann P.
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