On 2018 Jul 08 16:05:10, you wrote to me:

 BF> mark lewis -> Michiel van der Vlist skrev 2018-07-08 12:57:
 ml>> that would be when ISDN came around... ISDN doesn't have a dial
 ml>> tone... dial tone is what distinguishes a POTS line from any other...

 BF>    Oh how I wish you could turn this entire, excellent message into a
 BF> proper Fidonews article, so it can be saved for future use rather than
 BF> getting lost in the volatile echomail archives.

you may do that :)  both of fidonet's news letters have had my permission, for
a long time, to use posts of mine in their publications if they wanted to... i
wrote the post (aka content) once... i'm not writing it again... it is someone
else's job to typeset it (like with CSS) and publish it :lol:

 BF>    Suggested header:

 BF>    *The history of the Fidonet FOSSIL
 BF>         by mark lewis (1:3634/12)

that is fine bu me -=B-)

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