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Hello Ross - 

DD>>> reread your own posts. 

DD>>> You quote Jennings at "starting Fidonet in '85 - and
DD>>> setting up echomail in 86". 

CA>> If I began CoBBS in December of x year I might not get to
CA>> the message system until x+1 year. So what? Jennings
CA>> stated quite clearly his intentions for FIDO were to send
CA>> email and files from the start. 

RC> email, why are you stuck on that term when it encompasses
RC> all forms of messaging that can be done on and sent from a
RC> computer? 

Because I don't want to discuss fidonets inner workings. 

RC> What Jennings created involved sysops messaging back and
RC> forth, not users like yourself, files involved the nodelist
RC> and fidonews. 

RC> Echomail came later period. 

RC> You dont even know the difference between netmail and
RC> echomail. 

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CA>> I really have no interest in discussing fidonet. 

RC> You cant discuss that which you know nothing about.. 

OK, and here is the crux of the matter. You want to turn the
dicussion towards something that you _do_ know something about.
Right? 

I am hearing that being a part of fidonet is very important to
you and something you enjoy discussing.  That part is not a
problem but for the fact, as you have pointed out, I have never
attempted to be a part of fidonet.  In part, because I have no
interest in the inner workings of fidonet.  This is not intended
as a slur re:fidonet just a fact of life.  I don't have much of
an interest in database software either which seems similar to
me from a programming standpoint.  A puzzle I do not care to
solve. ;-)
 

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