Re: Is anybody live here?

On 2025-03-13 12:31, Marion wrote:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:08:20 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote :
 

 From his address, he is accessing using a Fidonet <--> Usenet gateway. It is possible the gateway is not working properly.
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Interesting, Fidonet seems to be still active in Russia.

 Thanks for looking at that information, which I presume you gathered from
the OP's headers. I don't see any headers unless I go to the trouble to dig
for them. I don't even see whom I'm responding to, unless I look at the
attribution line that is auto generated by my 'newsreader' scripts.
 It's kind of why I respond to everyone by what value they write.
I don't respond to them by who they are (so I'm egalitarian that way).
 Back to your point, I haven't heard of "Fidonet" in years myself.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet>

I am very familiar with Fidonet, although I have not used it in more than two decades. My uplink machine died; there was an offer of another sysop, but his software was not compatible with mine.

"While the use of FidoNet has dropped dramatically compared
  with its use up to the mid-1990s, it is still used in many  countries and especially Russia and former republics of the USSR"
 Since the OP asked about "Echo", I found this in that wiki article:
"By far the most commonly used of these piggyback protocols  was Echomail, public discussions similar to Usenet newsgroups  in nature... Echomail was so popular that for many users,  Echomail was the FidoNet."
 I never heard of "echomail" but it seems similar to Google Groups.

Yes. Always moderated, never anonymous.

 Just as Google Groups stopped its gateway to Usenet, I suspect, based only
on what the OP wrote, that FidoNet EchoMail stopped it's gateway also.

No, gateways are operated by volunteers. It is up to the sysop to have it active or not.
...

Thanks for pointing that out to us, as I don't usually look at headers.
I generally only care about the gift of the body (not the wrapping paper).

It is important because it explains his question.
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Cheers, Carlos.