Bob Swift wrote in a message to Darin Mcbride:

-=> Darin McBride wrote to Bob Swift <=-

 DM> To oldtimers who actually have modems and stuff, yes.  But that's dating
 DM> yourself there, partner.  :-)

 BS> A bit, yeah.  Then again, I have feen in FidoNet since just prior
 BS> to Jeff Rush inventing this concept called "echomail". 


Oh yeah?  I was a bbs caller on George Peace's system when I bumped into
this tihng called "Matrix Mail" (later on called netmail)...  :-)

 DM> I really need to convert my fido over to Linux.  There are so few
 DM> reasons I'm still running OS/2 - and this is one of them.  :-)  BTW -

 BS> I still have an old box with OS/2 that I have to recover some old
 BS> archived files from before redeploying (or retiring) it.  I am
 BS> pleased with the Linux systems here though.  Pretty much rock solid
 BS> and extremely powerful for all the network server stuff.

I'm sitting here with the PPP-FAQ on the other screen,  preparing to also
dig into the net2 and firewall stuff,  so I can bring the LAN machines here
online...

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