Hello Herman,

 >  >> He'll never understand, because he has no idea how Fidonet
 >  >> started,
 >
 >  MvdV> I don't?
 >
 > LOL! ;-)
 >
 > It was detailed discribed in those "Nieuwsbrief" (HCC
 > monthly) in those years.

Ah, yes. "Roedelnieuws", Henk Wever's monthly column...

I was there in Utrecht on the "HCC dagen" when TJ came to Utrecht
for the introduction of FidoNet in The Netherlands. First net outside the
N. America...

> Maybe 1 or 2 issues I kept.

I got them all...

 > Yep. Those were the days, when "Dutchie" was the obligated
 > mailer software for sysops in N500.

Those were the days indeed.

Let nobody tel me I don't know how it all started.

 >  MvdV> That is NOT how it started. It started with a nodelist that was
 >  MvdV> just a list of node numbers and telephone numbers. No hosts, no
 >  MvdV> hubs, just node numbers. My former host and first ZC2 Henk
 >  MvdV> Wevers had 3100 as his first node number
 >
 > Must be someone who still has some of the very first
 > nodelists.

They were published in FidoNews. I also have all of that...

 >  MvdV> The only way to deliver mail to another node was to make a
 >  MvdV> direct call.

 > As far as I can remember, that's correct.
 > And that was/is just the reason that nodes _must_ be
 > available to accept mail.

Exactly.


Cheers, Michiel

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