While I must concede that I would find it highly amusing for some arcane, dialup-only, steam powered network to exist mostly seperate from and parallel to the internet in this day and age when just about every phone call itself goes over the internet at some point, I'm not sure it's something I want to pay for the cost of interoperating with it from my Internet bill. It is unfortunate we didn't all get a discount when they shut down their NNTP servers.
I guess this is the opportunity for those of you hardcore enough, to get out your accoustic couplers, and find a UUCPNET provider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#UUCPNET_and_mapping
It might be a little difficult though, given people stopped keeping track of the layout of the network in 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Decline Certainly though, it shouldn't be any trouble. I've not done it myself, but hey, it it was difficult, it would have been replaced, oh, say ten years ago, with web based forums.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 19:45, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.fidonet.org/genlinfo.html
it is not clear if fidonet is still going or not; the link to "list of active nodes" is all web-fungus now.