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Skriven 2007-04-13 09:55:42 av Alexander Koryagin
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716)
Ärende: Re: Russian FidoNet
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From: "Alexander Koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

F2EP
Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Wednesday, 04 of April, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin about "Russian
FidoNet"


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AK>>  As for the high price, it is not so high that a pointer
AK>>  cannot use Internet for downloading the messages.

AH>           At present, maybe.  But just as the width of our present-day
AH> railroad tracks is reportedly based on the width of a Roman horse's
AH> backside, the way we do things in Fidonet now may have originated in
AH> the early 1980's.

In this case the Russian horses backsides are even greater! we have the
widest railroads tracks in the world. ;) As for the using of the old
software for Fidonet I doubt it's worth it. 'Fidolook' for example, is the
software extention designed for the standard Outlook Express. We all used to
mail usual e-mails via OE, but 'Fidolook makes it possible for OE to work as
a Fidonet client program; it provides many convenient abilities for the
pointer. FL allows to work with Fidonet via NNTP servers,  and also via FTN
(when pointer gets his letters  from the node via Internet).

AH> In the early 1990's people often stopped me on the street to ask "What's
AH> the Internet?"  The Internet wasn't generally available then.  A 2400
AH> baud modem was "state-of-the- art", IIRC, as was a 20 megabyte hard
AH> drive.  And we found a variety of ways to save time & money, some of
AH> which probably worked better here & some there. :-)

I know how it is difficult constantly modernize equipment. I am a quite old
student ;) and I remember the time when I felt myself comfortable with
MSDOS. And I used to say it was enough for me to have Norton Commander and
Borland C++ 3.1. But at first 'Microsoft Word', then 'Encarta' encyclopedia
forced me to change my views.

AK>>  Now we have several GATEs, and they translate fido echos
AK>>  to NNTP servers. I am writing to the FIDO as NNTP USENET
AK>>  user.

AH>           The world has changed.  Folks can & do make use of the new
AH> technology when it's practical to do so.  But I'm still seeing a lot
AH> more mail from points in the UK, in continental Europe, and in the
AH> ex-USSR than from North America... and I'm seeing a lot more mail from
AH> North American BBS users who prefer to call as the spirit moves
AH> (possibly using an offline reader and/or more than one BBS) than from
AH> elsewhere.  Many people have been doing things the same way for quite
AH> awhile.  The techies here have a saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix
AH> it."  ;-)

May be. Especially when we speak about hobby. As far as I can remember,
Peter even said that he was an radio-amateur. I imagine - listening the
whistling, cracking, rustling in the hope to listen to another ham radio man
may be from far away. Good romanticism.

Something about Grammar.
For a example Peter says in his letter to me: "I am a radio-amateur".
Then I told you (in the letter to you) that Peter said that he was a
radio-amateur. I wrote "was" according to the rule how Direct Speach  must
be altered to Indirect one. But can you understand me, that Peter was a
radio-amateur, but now he is not?

[...Legere utile est]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander
fido7.english-tutor 2007


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