GW>
  > Getting slightly on topic (sorry Peter) this is a sore point with me
  > (and Andrew) because IBM EMEA DAP have moved completely to the Internet.
  > and have shut down their BBS. I have currently got no access to the DAP
  > except for specific messages to and from them (which I get through this
  > BBS which is Internet connected). So my main access to OS/2 programming
  > expertise is throgh this echo (and my thanks to all of you who help out
  > in answering the queries here, I'm learning by lurking).
GW>

  I find that extremely annoying too.  Fortunately, I can get onto the
  DAP site from work.

  The *only* justification that I ever heard for it was that it is
  cheaper for Europeans to make a long distance telephone calls to their
  IP providers than it is for them to make international telephone calls
  to the BBS.

  It was never explained why, since the BBS was running Maximus, it
  couldn't be arranged to have a secondary BBS in the IBM HQ in each
  country, taking an echomail and filebone feed from the main one.  But
  there you go.

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