Subj : Re: Fido in Russia/Ukraine
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : John Dovey
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 06:37 am


 WvV> Hi John,

 WvV> On 2022-03-05 22:01:29, you wrote to All:

 JD>> I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I was wondering whether
 JD>> anyone knows whether Fido is still up and running in Russia/Ukraine?

 WvV> I don't know about Russia, but there is enough evidence it's running as
 WvV> smoothly as ever.

 WvV> I have been monitoring the connectivity of binkp systems in R46 (Urkaine)
 WvV> since the previous sunday (27-Febr.). There isn't much change. There's
 WvV> one system no longer connectable, and 1 that has become connectable
 WvV> since. All others are more or less unchanged.

 WvV> But the situation on the 27th was already bad. A large part of the
 WvV> systems was not connectable at that time. Whether that was due to the war
 WvV> or because of the general state of fidonet from even before the war
 WvV> started, I don't know, but I suspect the latter. And there is still a
 WvV> large number of POTS only nodes in R46, that I can't test, even I wanted
 WvV> to.

 Thank you, that's truly helpful and good news.
There are a lot of people who are going to need communication in the area for the next while that might not be able to use the standard channels. 

One option I've been investigating/testing is https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

This is how I was envisaging Fido working when I posted to Future4fido (and got so heavily castigated for heresy).

All the best
John

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