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to: Janis Kracht
from: Roy Witt
date: 2006-05-22 10:38:00
subject: Echomail

20 May 06 23:46, Janis Kracht wrote to Roy Witt:

 JK> Hi Roy,

 >>>>>> George left Fidonet years ago.
 >>>>> Yes, he did.  He and I are still in contact often however.
 >>>> I made that deduction, knowing that he'd left. How is the old duff?

 >>> He's doing well, I guess he and his company were taking off for
 >>> ISPCON (guess that's the next step after BBSCON )

 >> Accept that ISP is what he does for a living. :o) Glad to hear that
 >> he's a success..

 JK> Yep.. His company took off right away from what I remember...what's
 JK> funny to me is we discovered he worked closely with a company that
 JK> we'd dealt with way way back before the internet became so free and
 JK> easy .. back then, you could only send an ISP a list of files or
 JK> info you wanted (and it wasn't cheap) and then the next day or
 JK> whatever you could download the stuff.. and if you tried to
"access"
 JK> some systems during BUSINESS hours and tied things up you'd might be
 JK> blacklisted. It was a whole different world then..

Slightly before I got access to the internet...I remember seeing files
from your system made available on my first excursion on the internet. I
was looking for anything related to ham radio. Yours had the most
available then.


Roy
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