Hello Nick,

 NA>>> Were you ever put on Probation Status until you obtained your node
 NA> num

 DD>> Nope. I'd had a Fido-compatible BBS running for some time when the
 NA> local NC
 DD>> contacted me inviting me to "sign up". I did, he assigned the number
 NA> and th
 DD>> was that. This was quite a while ago.

 NA> Somewhat the same situation here if I remember correctly... it would of
 NA> been
 NA> in '93 or '94. It was real easy to get a node number.

See there?  All David D. had to do was wait for the local NC to
contact him and that was that.  Which is exactly what I have been
doing for many years/decades/centuries ...

--Lee

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