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Hello Steven - 

CA>> So basically I am correct. 

SH> No, because the charge was never for Fido anymore than one
SH> now pays for the Internet. Instead, the charge was for part
SH> of the cost that one person paid for a feed or for the
SH> Planet Connect feed. I never had to participate in a cost
SH> recovery plan but instead ran up sizeable long distance
SH> bills. 

Sure. I don't pay 'taxes' it's a charitable contribution for
the 'widows and orphans' of politicians who died of syphilis -
NOT! At one time you paid the money or didn't use FIDO, period.
You sort out who got what, I'm too busy. 

CA>> (re:lack of privacy using netmail) Yes, I've noticed that
CA>> in recent years. 

SH> I can recall the privacy of netmail being raised as early
SH> as 1990 followed by the hot and heavy debates over
SH> SecureMail. 

I can remember J-K recently involved in a scandal about
reading, falsifying, and other nonsense involving netmail. I
used to read the 'backbone' echos. ;-) 

CA>> I have no use for netmail myself, never did. 

SH> How did you keep in touch with people? 

I don't, they keep in touch with me. ;-) 

SH> Netmail even allowed me to send e-mail by sending a netmail
SH> message to the 

SH> Fidonet  Internet gate. That was one part of Fidonet I
SH> really miss.

The local 'hub' will send email to the Internet for me but I
also found out the remote sysop was reading ALL of my email
(personal to my children). 

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