Well yes it is cheaper  but its not the same however a wife kidsa and an 
increase in my girth have put a hold on flying 16 years since I last flew and 
20 since I did it legaly with a licence. oh well, one day...

Oscar
 ps Im in zone 3 New Zealand 
 
> Hi Oscar!
 > 
 >  OW> I was looking at an old fido file this morning got all
 >  OW> misty eyed so looked on 
 >  OW> the Inet and found this BBS thought great I'll look up 
 >  OW> the Avation echo Oh 
 >  OW> dear all but dead Hi Mike Luther & Ward Dossche I 
 >  OW> remember your names. Does 
 >  OW> Fidonet still exist ? Where can I get a good feed ( fido not food )?
 > 
 > You bet FidoNet still exists.  Some echos are still pretty active.  Some 
 > are sure not.  I gather, from the Region 2 source from which you made this 
 > post, you probably are in Region 2.  Thus a feed source from wherever in 
 > Europe you might hook up with isn't really a takeoff forward from Region 1 
 > over here in the USA, grin.  Since a huge part of FidoNet is now fed via IP 
 > connectivity via BinkP, TelNet or FTP connections or things like that, 
 > phone line costs aren't really the big issue it used to be.  Ward will 
 > probably offer you comments - his venue is your arena!

 > Certainly cheaper than flying an airplane all over the place every day just 
 > to talk about aviation, grin!


 > --> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
 > 
 > Mike {at} 1:117/3001

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