26 Oct 16 22:26, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> reread my first statement after FWIW... there is no real hierarchy in   
    ml>> echomail...........two systems on hold and that only because i cannot   
    ml>> connect to them... i don't know why and their operators can't seem to   
    ml>> figure out how to get set up so that i can but they (supposedly) have   
    ml>> callers connecting to their systems... why they can get one working   
    ml>> and not the other is beyond me...   
      
    rc> Obviously thats changed since the 90's...   
      
   no, it hasn't changed... what happened is that nodes woke up and saw the   
   truth...   
      
    rc> It was very very well beaten in to nodes in my area at that time. Thou   
    rc> shalt get echos via the net hub/NC/ what ever it was... Otherwise you   
    rc> ran the risk of be expelled..   
      
   yeah, that was all roun out of town on a rail when Planet Connect came around   
   with their satellite feed of the full fidonet backbones and file distribution   
   networks... those *Cs/*ECs that played those games didn't last too long after   
   that...   
      
    rc> I also can see one little glitch some where misconfigured and huge   
    rc> amounts of dupes being moved around... in 2016 via TCP/IP who cares   
    rc> mostly.. in the modem days... Some one definitely cares real quick.   
      
   that's the story some use these days... some of us old timers still don't like   
   it but :shrug:   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it   
   wrong...   
   ... Those Polish folks sure make one hell of a good shoe-shining compound.   
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