PE> Dave's closing down his 800 echos and will thus no longer be a
PE> hub.

BL> What a pity. It was you, was it? No sooner do you start taking mail
BL> from Dave and he closes down.

2 years or something.

BL> I thought that's how FIDO worked. Why are you getting stuff
BL> you're not interested in? 

PE> If all the sysops only carried what *they* were interested in,
PE> there would be nothing to get! Sysop A might have 20 echos, but
PE> B is only interested in 10 of them, sysop C is only interested
PE> in 5 of the ones that B is getting, etc. 

BL> I really thought that was how it worked... you got the 5 you were
BL> interested in personally, interstate or internationally, and fed them
BL> into the net locally.

Well, that is often close to the truth.  But when you "feed them into
the net locally", it means that everyone in Sydney can get them for no
increase in cost, so it gives them the ability to carry echos they are not
interested in, but their downlinks/points are interested in. BFN.  Paul.
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