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|    Message 519 of 1,458    |
|    Joe Delahaye to Roy Witt    |
|    Internet Rex    |
|    02 Oct 12 14:21:00    |
       Re: Internet Rex        By: Roy Witt to Joe Delahaye on Tue Oct 02 2012 16:53:11               > 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^(              LOL                      > 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.        >              We had a local hub who called LD to get the mail, who then distributed it       here. Still same net, and Cost Sharing of course. He eventually got a Planet       Connect system and did it all himself.        --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32        * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)    |
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