Hi Philip!

Thursday July 20 2006, Philip Lozier wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 VD>> I want to note one fact: for all my FIDO life (since 1994) I
 VD>> receive not more 10 letters by direct (exept election period, of
 VD>> course).

 PL> That's odd... to me anyway.  I use netmail extensively and have recieved
 PL> more direct netmails in a month than you have since 1994 :) IMO, netmail,
 PL> especially direct, is one of the most under utilized features of fidonet
 PL> these days.  I also think that the direct capabilities of netmail make it
 PL> superior to e-mail and that if presented as it should have been before
 PL> fidonet declined as it did that "fidonet netmail" could have been a
 PL> commonly known term these days, and widely used.

We live at different worlds... At my region direct netmail is very
unpopular and use only for complains (as require Polcy) and at troubles.
All on other cases (very most) we use route mail.

I can write a reason for it: very low number of phone lines and very high
cost of phone calls (specially intercity). So we divide one line by FIDO
and voice, and FIDO can work only night. But computers we have per day, and
we can receive (and send) mail at day without work-time all other nodes
(except nodes with direct password links with sysop's node), and sysop must
send netmeil through his hub (hubs prefered have CM phone and at most - IP
channel).

So - our sysops can receive more (and quickly) letters by route then by direct.


Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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