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Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm> writes:

> +1 for the name change, because Fido was a pre-Internet-era BBS network
> popular at least in Russia.  I was too young when it was operational,
> but even for me the name would be confusing.

Sadly, I'm not as young as you are and I was a Fido (Fidonet) user until
the Internet became pervasive. FWIW I don't think that the name is
problematic at all.