01 Jan 70 00:00, Joe Delahaye wrote to Roy Witt:
>> JD> You and many others.
>>
>> Even those who were successful weren't any help...
>>
JD> Most likely because the couldnt remember what it was they did to get
JD> it to work
Paul, the person I asked to help, already had Fidonet working under
Wildcat. I was one of his users who was active in the one and only echo I
was interested in at the time: Chatter. This was 1990 or so and I had the
same version of WC with a lot of game doors, files and local msg areas on
it, but no Fidonet.
That was frustrating to say the least. But, in retrospect, that was
probably a good thing I didn't get it working, as the PC running WC was in
my office at my shop. I probably would never have gotten any work done.
8^(
JD> I ran PCBoard clone at first, and then purchased PCB.
JD> My host was long distance, and at the time we could not do FTN, but
JD> we had Fido. QWK worked OK back then. Then Internail came to visit,
JD> and I purchased a copy of that. It did everything I wanted,
JD> including tossing the mail in native PCB format.
Interestingly, host 202 wasn't the source of any echomail in that net. The
entire group of net-nodes paid into a pool to buy a dedicated computer to
run echomail. Dunno the source, but there were several hubs, all assigned
202/x00 numbers to distribute mail to their 202/909 like numbered nodes
who were their downlinks. I recall having knock down drag out fights with
202/900 because his software was screwing up most of the time.
R\%/itt
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