Fidonet

[Fact 1]: Mail to other zones might be sent through a Zone Gate.For example, a FidoNet message might follow the path:

1:170/918 .

[Fact 2]: Echomail, for instance, often involved relatively large file transfers due to its popularity.

[Fact 3]: Zone 1 was the starting point and when Zones and Regions were formed, the existing nets were divided up regionally with no set formula.

[Fact 4]: This led to a series of "piggyback" protocols that built additional features onto FidoNet by passing information back and forth as file attachments.

[Fact 5]: This driver needed to be loaded before any Fido software would work.

[Fact 6]: As of June 2006, there are still some 50,000 listed points.

[Fact 7]: There are similar solutions for Linux such as MODEMU .On the side, Fido systems were usually well-equipped machines, for their day, with quick CPUs, high-speed modems and 16550 UARTs, which were at the time an upgrade.

[Fact 8]: This allows the mailer to "Dial" an IP address or hostname via Telnet, rather than dialing a real POTS phone number.

[Fact 9]: For instance, if one node operator in a network offered to make regular toll calls to a particular system elsewhere, other operators might arrange to forward all of their mail destined for the remote system, and those near it, to the local volunteer.

[Fact 10]: Listing points is on a voluntary basis and not every point is listed, so how many points there really were is anybody's guess.

[Fact 11]: D'Bridge), most FidoNet deployments were designed in a modular fashion.