Hi Bj”rn,


   Quoting: Bj”rn Felten to Robert Couture
 Date/Time: 27-May-04 / 19:03:33
   Subject: International Coodinator

 RC>> Your point?  Zone 2 selectively ignored Policy when they allowed
 RC>> ISDN nodes in.

 BF> I'm a Z2 ISDN node, and have been so for more than seven years,
 BF> with exactly the same setting and nodelist entry as now, save for
 BF> the BinkP flag that I added a few months ago. Are you saying I
 BF> shouldn't be allowed to be in the nodelist

But you also support V34 and Vfc. So what could be "the problem";-)

 BF> I think you (and I've seen this hoax recently from a few others)
 BF> are confusing matters with how they were for a short period of
 BF> time, in the mid 1990s, when you could get an ISDN connection here
 BF> in Europe, costing almost 1000EUR per month, but there were still
 BF> no equipment available that could handle both digital and analogue
 BF> connections, such as the ZyXel Elite terminal adaptor

No necessity. I use 2 separate devices for POTS and ISDN (same as about 7
years ago)
But 1000Eu / month ??
Typo? ;-)

 BF> Indeed we were very eager to launch this new techonology here in
 BF> Europe. Suddenly getting a factor two higher speed and sometimes
 BF> even more, with less than half a second or so of "modem

That was a very big step forward in that time.
I didn't think it over and bought an ISDN connection almost as soon as it
was available.
Same with ADSL (2Mbps down / 320Kbps up)

 BF> Well, some of us will go to any length to get the best possible
 BF> connection with other fidonet nodes.

Yep. Because it is a hobby!

 BF> OK to password out those that we do not like, effectively reducing
 BF> connectivity.

And that is (IMO) _against_ Fido.
Fido is _pro_ connectivity.

Remember the 30bps, 75/1200bps and 1200bps modem?
I always went downstairs for a mug coffee, while downloading a file.
I had for monitor purpose a telephone audio amplifier downstairs, so I
could hear the data traffic on the line. When the noise was over, I went
upstairs again;-)

Those were the days....

Best Regards,
      Herman Neut

 e-mail: h.neutnospam{at}hccnet.nl

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