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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: fidonet access
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.121016.10236@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 12:10:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug20.121016.10236
- References: <1992Aug19.160522.475@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
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- >My desire is opposite to so many of you. I'd like to access some
- >Fidonet BBSes from the Internet, or from Bitnet. Is this possible.
- >Are there such addresses. Not so much for more conferences. There
- >are more than enough on USENET. For some reason, however, many
- >good shareware files don't make it to SIMTEL or CICA. For example,
- >Wyndfields for Windows, which I would like to test.
- >Can anybody help?
-
- Sorry, but Fido & those networks can only exchange *mail*.
-
- Fidonet BBSes aren't set up to allow "remote login". They can
- allow the Equivalent of FTP, but only from another Fido site,
- or a user with a terminal program that "looks like" another Fido
- system.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com
- FIDO: 1:105/51 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
-