CHARLES ANGELICH -> DAVID DRUMMOND wrote:

 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 the
 CA> message system until x+1 year. So what? Jennings stated quite
 CA> clearly his intentions for FIDO were to send email and files
 CA> from the start.

And it did that from the start - netmail, with file attaches.

Echomail was a different kettle of fish that came later.



 CA>>> Doesn't sound as though you're going to reinvent any FIDO
 CA>>> software any time soon.

 DD>> I did - just this year - well, it wasn't a reinvention, it
 DD>> was invented from scratch.

 CA> To do what?

I host a DNS zone based on IBN data in the Fidonet nodelist. My utility
creates the zone file from data extracted from the nodelist.

BinkP mailers can use my DNS service to locate other BinkP mailers automagically.



 CA>>> I wrote over 90% of CoBBS.

 DD>> Don't know that one.

 CA> CoBBS was online when the TRS-80 BBS were the best BBS online
 CA> and most using Intel software had XT machines.

I ran my first BBS on an XT machine. I never delved into Tandy.

 RC>>>> I also tested and broke alot of software for a few
 RC>>>> developers.

 CA>>> Great. I tested and rewrote parts of OBERON.

 DD>> How many using Oberon with Fidonet throughout the world
 DD>> today?

 CA> I would guess none? I know I would stop using a computer before
 CA> I would write OBERON Fidonet software.

 CA> I really have no interest in discussing fidonet.

And little knowledge of it it would appear....

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regards

David

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