From: "Netsurge"    
      
     Re: Re: Dial Up Gateway   
     By: Mercyful Fate to Netsurge on Fri Nov 26 2010 03:20 am   
      
    > haha.. i was just a poor boy, i couldn't afford isdn on my gas station job   
    > at the time.. i tried and looked and looked for an isp to do shotgun 56k   
    > modems probaly back in 98/99-2000 becasue there was no dsl yet in my area   
      
   I was and sort of still am a major echomail hub in Fidonet.  Back in the day I   
   was one of few to offer echomail via FTP or email and charged for it.  I had   
   enough downlinks who would pay for the service which allowed me to run the 2   
   isdn's.   
      
   |08[|07=|15! frank |07aka |15netsurge   
   |08[|07=|15! diskshop bbs |08. |15http/ftp/nntp/telnet |08. |15bbs.diskshop.ca   
   |08[|07=|15! bbs-scene.org |08. |15where all the cool kids hang out   
      
      
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