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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

> Then I would like to discuss an alternate "free/non-commercial network"
> using existing IP infrastructure as a communications backbone, but
> totally non-commercial and totally de-centralized, as an alternative to
> the current fascist/corporate-controlled system. I come out of FIDONET's
> history, and I believe some of the things we learned back then can form
> the basis of a new and egalitarian network riding on the backbone of the
> "dumb-pipe" IP network we have inherited.
> 
> I see no problems which can not be overcome if we simply create another
> NETWORK. A NETWORK for and by  the people, one not at the mercy of
> corporate control.

Do explain more for those of us who were not around when FIDONET was around.

I read a bit, and it states it was a email and newgroup network only.

I am curios about your ideas.

--julian