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In article <149a9B2w165w@mookie.UUCP> steve@mookie.UUCP (Steve Kong) writes:
>hulse@lims.lockheed.com (Mel Hulse) writes:
>
>> Steve Kong (steve@mookie.UUCP) wrote:
>> : I was curious.  Does FidoNet, InterNet, and RIME all link together?  For 
>> : example could I send mail to my friends on RIME or FidoNet?  And if so, 
>> : how do I do it?
>> 
>> RIME does not have an Internet interface.  
>
>That is interesting.  Meaning that people on FidoNet can send mail back 
>and forth with people on InterNet.  But the RIME network is all by 
>itself?  By the way, what would you (or any others) classify the nets as?
>My friend thinks that InterNet is more technical, and FidoNet is more 
>casual, and he doesn't know about RIME...
>
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>garg!mookie!steve (Steve Kong)
>Genesis/Mookie's Place BBS +1.408.942.1984 Milpitas, Ca

Well, the internet does have more technical and business oriented groups
on it, but it also has more trash bandwidth (and the signal to noise ratio
is probably even lower than Fidonet I would bet).

Since there are so many colleges connected to the internet, we get the 
yearly spate of freshmen dweebs that are amazed that they can post and
cuss people out and not get in trouble, ask the same dumb questions over
and over again and commit all sorts of net etiquette errors.

Fidonet is pretty small compared to the whole of the internet, and even
small compared to the machines that are news servers on the internet.
Fidonet users however I believe tend to be more motivated and thus tend
to contribute less to the noise than the internet population per capita.

As always, YMMV.


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