"Eric R Snow" wrote in message
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Anybody reading this has probably looked through the list of
newsgroups that their ISP has on their servers. So I check now and
then for new groups. Several times the new groups list will have
groups that start with fido7. For example: fido7.ru.ded &
fido7.su.hardw.pc.repair. I have sampled several of these groups but
there are never any messages. Just what are these groups? Anybody
know. Do they have anything to do with dogs?
Eric

Eric,

Fido was (is?) a protocol that many dial-up bulletin board systems (BBS) use
to manage their cross-board postings. Sometime in the early or mid 1980's
it was starting to be used extensively. This is al prior to the internet's
prime-time usage by the general public.

Think of it as the trucks that deliver US postal mail and the letters are
your eMails... But somehow, it gets copied by Xerox along the way and sent
to many mailboxes around the country and world.

..ru is Russia

Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
(800) 871-5022
http://www.AutoDrill.com
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