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to: BILL CHEEK
from: BUD JAMISON
date: 1997-06-13 16:28:00
subject: Nodelist

-> Okay, okay, okay.....figger it out.  Mac's can't run FrontDoor, nor
-> most of the other nodelisted mailers, right?  But.......
->
-> ;S |-----------------------------------|
-> ;S |  XW  Fido        12N   and higher |
-> ;S |      Tabby                        |
-> ;S |-----------------------------------|
->
-> Clearly "XW" nodes are Macs.  Soooooo......you find the number of Mac
-> is a statistically sound "guess" to assume that the rest of the non-P
-> population won't exceed the Mac population, since it is the second
But 'Fido' is an IBM compatible program, and many Macs (and Amigas) are
running Dos emulators.  There are also Unix/Linux systems hoked into
Fido.  My point is you can't really know WHAT machine is running the BBS
based on the nodelist.  You can GUESS, though.
--- Platinum Xpress/386/Wildcat! v1.3
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* Origin: The Kat!, Wildcat!, and PX in San Diego Ca. (1:202/746)

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