FidoNet FidoNet's Policy Document How to Join FidoNet FidoNews FidoNet Technical Standards Documents EU GDPR Rules Video FILEGATE Nodelist History Lookup (Pavel Gulchouck) Fidonet History Project (Ulrich Schroeter) Comprehensive FidoNet historical data and analytics (Dmitry Protasov) History of FidoNet - Humble beginnings (1992) Links to Zones: [Zone-1
FidoNet What is FidoNet? FidoNet's Policy Document How to Join FidoNet FidoNews FidoNet Technical Standards Documents Gateway Software Getting FidoNet EchoMail and File feeds via FTP Links to Zones: [Zone-1] [Zone-2] [Zone-3] [Zone-4] [Zone-5] [Zone-6]
General Info on FidoNet General Info on FidoNet FidoNet is a PC-based network run by hobbyists It consists of approximately 2,000 PC-based computer systems world-wide, operated by some 1,000 system operators, which comprise a network that exchanges mail and files via IP and modems using proprietary protocols
About Joining FidoNet About joining Fidonet Fidonet membership is not to be taken lightly Every member has certain responsibilities, set forth in Fidonet Policy 4 There is really only one rule -- that you run an FTS-0001 compliant mailer during ZoneMailHour (ZMH) daily Fidonet is open to any and all comers who are able to meet the ZMH technical requirement, but is not something you join on the spur of the moment
Fidonet Software Page Explore FidoNet software and tools for seamless communication and connectivity
FidoNet between FidoNet and the uucp network, and hence the Internet, became sufficiently reliable for production use Technical Standards Technical standards development began in 1986, with the publication of FSC-0001 describing the then-extant xmodem-based protocol suite and the basic data formats [Bush 1986] This was shortly followed by a description
FidoNet Zone-1 FidoNet Zone-1 Other Links: Net-387 Home Page (net387 texas net) Mike Burgett
About Joining Fidonet Fidonet is open to any and all comers who are able to meet the ZMH technical requirement, but is not something you join on the spur of the moment without understanding your responsibilities You will really need to have at least a basic understanding of how Fidonet and your FTS-0001 compliant software work
General Info on FidoNet FidoNet consists of approximately 30,000 systems world-wide which comprise a network which exchanges mail and files via Modems using a proprietary protocol They are connected for the purposes of exchanging E-Mail to the Internet thru a series of gateway systems which interact with the Internet via UUCP with cooperating UNIX-based smart-hosts which act as their MX-receivers
FidoNet Gateway Software GIGO (Jason Fesler) via World-Wide-Web, or FTP TransNet WaterGate [Author]