In a post between "Tony Langdon : Michiel van der Vlist", on 11/25/2019 1:43 AM

 MvV> Metered local calls is what killed the BBS here. (I wrote a
 MvV> Fidonews article about that, but that was a long time
 MvV> ago..)

 TL> Worth a read if it can be tracked down. :)

Too bad there isn't a searchable database of the fidonews articles.

[1] A work-around to that might be to fetch an nntp feed of FNEWS_PUBLISH, (my
current feed only goes as far back as 2018), configure your nntp reader to
download the messages for local usage, and then use the built-in search
features of the reader to search by subject or content as necessary.

[2] Another way to hunt for an article would be here:

 http://www.fidonet.itu.se/echomail/

It archives the FIDONEWS posts as far back as 2004. It does not feature a
S)earch option, but you can L)ist the messages by Subject, and identify the
headings that represent articles using Ctrl-F in your browser.

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