Hello Michiel!

19 Jun 18 16:28, you wrote to Bill McGarrity:

 MvdV> Ward has mixed up P4 and EP1. As I said, I knew Henk Wevers personally.
 MvdV> He was the host of the first net outside North America. Net 500. My
 MvdV> first node number was 2:500/5555. I met Henk on at least a dozen
 MvdV> ocasions. I have it from his own mouth that Z2 rejected P4 and adopted
 MvdV> EP1 by ZC decree when Henk was ZC2.

 I am sorry to rain on your party, but net 500 was certainly not the first
 net outside North America.

 The first net's were formed when Fidonet was still 2D. There were some nets,
 o.a. in the nordic countries and Britain as well. Hardly any nodelist of those
 times have survived, so we have to rely on the memory of those who lived
 it.

 Also the later 500net started as a net in a USA region, before it went public.

 I do remeber there were some routing disasters when mail between nets in
 Europe were routed via the region host. With modem speeds of 300bps and
 high rates for transatlantic calls, that was no fun for those who footed
 the bill.

Kees

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