-=> On 11-23-19 00:10, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Terry Roati <=-

 MvV> "Connecting BBS systems" is how it began. But the world has changed and
 MvV> so has Fidonet. Here in this part of the world where - contrary to
 MvV> where Fidonet was born - local calls were never "free", Fidonet
 MvV> participants moved to participating as points, rather than users. Users
 MvV> became an almost extinct species in the second half of the ninetees.
 MvV> I'd say the last Dutch user was spotted in the wild in 1996. With the
 MvV> users went the BBS. Look at the MO flags in the nodelist.

In Australia, local calls weren't free, but they were untimed, which meand
users tended to have long sessions, to get the most out of their calls as
possible.  Offline mail was heavily used to save mail reading time, and the
terminal sessions were often used for browsing files, multiline chat and door
games.  Then mail could be read after one's online time expired. :)


... OF COURSE I'm on topic!  (Which conference is this?)
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