Jerry Schwartz -> Matt Munson said the following
 on 10/10/2011 8:57 PM:

 JS> And I remember when we were trying to come up with an extended
 JS> format for the Fidonet Nodelist, and some of the sysops were
 JS> complaining that it would take too much disk space.

Wasn't the issue more about the "time" it would take for
transferring the nodelist over dialup rather than space?  Dialup was still
the primary way the majority of sysops moved everything.


 JS> I offered to pay, out of my own pocket, for the extra disk
 JS> space required -- for every sysop in Fidonet. Even then, 20kb
 JS> of disk space was a fraction of a penny.

I remember lively discussions about nodelist size issues, but I don't
remember the echo it was in.  You were very generous in the offer.

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