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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 11:17:38 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • tom jennings

   @tomjennings Sylvia was the best.

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 11:17:39 JST tom jennings

     I stumbled on this 1994 FidoNews, 14 mar 1004, 11/11 it's kinda hilariously amateurish. I really liked Sylvia, she was a great editor but you can imagine the old white guy crowd wasn't induced to write.

     FidoNews came out weekly, for over 20 years, had a large readership, in the dialup BBS days. I don't think many not-for-profit newsletters had that duration.

     They are not rare; there's archives all over. I think.

     It's pure ASCII formatted text file, raw, not html, and firefox renders it great.

     https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/temp/fido1111.nws.txt