What is fido7.zx.spectrum?
A. It’s a Russian language FidoNet group concerned primarily with the ZX Spectrum, various Russian clones, other Sinclair machines and in fact anything vaguely Sinclair related. Since it is carried by Google Groups and available on most good NNTP servers, a common misconception has arisen in countries outside Russia that it is another USENET news group. It certainly isn’t, and the moderator of fido7.zx.spectrum rightly insists that it isn’t. It is important not to think of fido7.zx.spectrum as just another USENET newsgroup because (a) the rules are quite different for FidoNet groups which are generally much more strict than USENET groups (b) you can’t just casually post to fido7.zx.spectrum on a whim like you can to most USENET groups (you need to be registered) and (c) most importantly – it does indeed originate from a totally seperate network than USENET and is not at all a true USENET group, even though to the casual observer it understandably appears as if it is one. At the time of
