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- From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: fidonet access/shareware
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.120557.1460@lub001.lamar.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 1992 19:05:57 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.160522.475@vms.huji.ac.il>
- Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont
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- In article <1992Aug19.160522.475@vms.huji.ac.il>, tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
- > 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?
- > -dennis turner
-
- Dennis, FIDONET and USENET may be two different things. You are most surely
- right, a lot of files don't make it from FIDONET to SIMTEL and CICA. However,
- if you could be a little more specific in a file name, perhaps someone will
- upload it to an archive site and make it available for FTP. The FIDONET
- Software Distribution System is found on many FTP'able sites. For instance,
- ZEUSS.IEEE.ORG has an area called pub/fidonet/sds. You might check places
- like that for more information.
-