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От : Ward Dossche 2:292/854 02 авг 26 11:52:05
К : Enric Lleal Serra 02 авг 26 13:01:02
Тема : Re: FidoWeb
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Enric,
EL> But with your question, I think that I have to assume there`s no
EL> backbone, isn`t it, Ward?
Correct.
Backbones are from the pre-internet era when due to cost reductions
on international, and even local, traffic bundeling everything made
economic sense. Those days are gone for over 2 decades now.
Some people may still call their system "backbone" but now that
everybody can link everywhere it`s just a word. Just as "echolist", or
"filegate". Someone may run these services, or may not ... but Fidonet can
live without them.
The word `backbone` for me carries a very negative connotation when
the North American star-systems were not ashamed to use their bundling
power into a tool to force foreign regions, and even entire zones, into
a specific pattern.
It culminated, and collapsed, with the Fidonews-putch which coincided
with a growth in number of internet-accessible nodes. Nothing bad from
the dead, and everybody mellowed in the meantime, but Bob Seaborn and
Janis Kracht played a pretty dirty role in those days.
Yes, there are no backbones anymore and at the same time we are
all together one single big backbone. No-one has power ...
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