"Netsurge"  wrote in message    
   news:4B500D16.16.scibscen@bbs.diskshop.ca...   
   >  To: Desireless   
   >  Re: Re: Ping ... Ping ...   
   >  By: Desireless to bbs-scene.help on Fri Jan 15 2010 05:00 am   
   >   
   > > I'll get that AmiExpress up on the site over the weekend. As for message   
   > > net's -   
   > > I never understood that in the past, you mean Fidonet? Funnily enough, I   
   > > was checking out such possibilities a couple of weeks ago, so yeah I'm   
   > > interested -   
   > > depends on the load it puts on the Amiga. I'm 6mb fast, 2mb chip - I'll   
   > > study the   
   > > /X guide soon and see what it says.   
   >   
   > Fidonet might not where you want to be, it's a cess pool of nerds fighting    
   > over   
   > stupid things.  There are other net's like scinet and zeronet which i    
   > think   
   > you'd be better suited for.   
   >   
   > I also have 6+2 on my Amiga and Crashmail/Binkd run without a problem.   
      
   Ah, gotcha. I thought 'Fidonet' was the top level name for a bunch of    
   subgroups,   
   including scinet and zeronet etc. I stand corrected.   
      
   Might be a couple of days before I get back into this again, I'm going   
   to be reinstalling XP on my main PC to sort out a couple of uneeded hard    
   drives.   
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