GT>-> I have NOT had much success getting responses from FIDOnetNODE
GT>->SYSops there, whenever I posted a msg to them via FIDOnetMAIL.
GT>-> Not even IF received. Guenter.
GT>KB>
GT>KB>     If you sent your FIDO netmail as routed netmail, they may not have
GT>KB>received it.
GT>KB>
GT>Thank You, Karin, for inserting a thought as you did...but as a senior
GT>citizen and novice at this BBSing thing also, I do not quite comprehend
GT>the concept your reply suggests. Could you explain it more ? Thanks! GT
     Sorry for answering so late - I've been having problems with my system.
     Echomail and "routed" netmail follow the Fido distribution system - in 
short, your system sends the message to the local hub system. The local hub 
system then forwards all the new messages received on to the next system in 
the chain, until the messages arrive at some kind of a central hub for the 
entire zone (e.g., North America) who then sends them - via the same sort of 
routing system - to its destination.
     What's nice about all this is that the originating system doesn't 
normally have to incur a direct long-distance charge to send the messages.  
On the other hand, if any of the systems in the chain to get your message 
from point A to point B has a problem, your message may never make it.  And, 
even if you had the option of dialing the recipient directly (which would 
then make it "direct" netmail, something that incurs extra cost and therefor 
is not normally available to BBS users), depending on how the receiving 
system is set up, your message may still fall between the cracks or languish 
in some subdirectory rather than get tossed into the message areas and be 
read.
     Or, of course, maybe the recipients just didn't feel like answering. 
Whatever you do, do NOT ever send out anything like a mass mailing - it's a 
very quick way to lose access.
     Hope this helps.
Karin
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Optimist:  Someone without much real-life experience. 
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