21 May 06 08:48, Ward Dossche wrote to Janis Kracht:

 WD> Janis,

 >>>>>>> George left Fidonet years ago.

 WD> ...

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

 WD> It seems people have easily forgotten he chickened-out at the flick
 WD> of a finger when a sysop threatened to sue him ... 1995?

That would have been the christian whacko, heh, he was so prominant in
Fidonet, I've forgotten his name. No, I think George had already had
enough of Fidonet that the bs from the xtian whacko was the final straw,
although he was around much later than 1995.


Roy
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