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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Oli    |
|    Re: non-CM nodes    |
|    13 Sep 22 14:29:24    |
      TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0200       CHRS: UTF-8 2       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221       MSGID: 2:280/464 632077eb       REPLY: 2:280/464.47 632075ac       Hi Oli,              On 2022-09-13 13:21:06, you wrote to me:               WvV>> Was there even an overlapping time period, when dial-up        WvV>> internet was still a thing, and binkd was develloped already?               Ol> Yes, in 1996 internet over dial-up and ISDN was the only option for most        Ol> users at home.               Ol> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binkp              At that time most bbs's were still dial-up, so users/sysops didn't need the       internet to connect to other nodes.              Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/705 709 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/120 131 124/5016 129/305 331 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0       SEEN-BY: 218/700 840 220/70 221/0 226/17 227/114 229/110 111 112 113       SEEN-BY: 229/200 206 275 317 424 426 428 470 550 664 700 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 298/25 301/1 305/3 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 100 340 772/210 220 230 2452/250       PATH: 280/464 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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