Gene Buckle (1:138/999) wrote to Steven Horn at 09:54 on 17 Nov 2006:

 GB> They didn't coin the term Fight-o-Net casually. :)

I don't think that infighting was the problem.  Instead, blame it on very
high telephone costs -- in the mid 90's I established that picking up my
feed from a node in British Columbia was prohibitively expensive and when I
looked for alternatives, I found a reliable feed in Oregon.

I considered Alaska but calling Alaska would have been more expensive than
calling B. C.  And oven Oregon was so expensive that I breathed a sigh of
relief when I discovered FNOS and started picking up my Fidonet feed over
the Internet.

Incidentally, you might find the following site interesting: 
http//bbslist.textfiles.com/907/oldschool.html.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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