From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: FidoNet (was: Re: Fido mode)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 04:31:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilrkux00.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wng2s8c1.fsf@posteo.net
Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> From what I understand, fido-mode reproduces the behaviour
> of ido-mode [...] hence fido -> "fake" ido [...]
Clever!
I thought it had something to do with FidoNet, which is
a worldwide computer network that is used for communication
between bulletin board systems (BBSes). It uses
a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and
public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network [1]
Sounds like a/some variety of the Usenet distributed model of
data replication and propagation, which is today known as
a "federation" or federative network architecture with
redundant data
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/pimgs/comp/net-arch.png
Indeed pretty similar to
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/pimgs/comp/usenet.png
Is it client-server only there are many servers in parallel
offering the same thing?
Only I thought that was the cloud?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-08 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-05 16:53 Fido mode binarydigitz01 via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-06 12:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-08 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-04-10 4:56 ` FidoNet (was: Re: Fido mode) Jean Louis
2022-05-01 3:56 ` FidoNet TRS-80
2022-05-01 4:35 ` FidoNet Samuel Banya
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87ilrkux00.fsf_-_@zoho.eu \
--to=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=moasenwood@zoho.eu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).