> That's because back in the time of the dinosaurs when it was written,
> people dialled in to BBS on a cheaper or free local number, rather than
> using an expensive national rate number of an ISP. They never expected
> anyone would use this ancient shit from a different timezone - when they
> are already on the internet.

That assumption is not entirely true.  Even back in the "time of the
dinosaurs," folks who bridged Usenet were usually sharing ("echoing") the
newsgroups to other boards, which could be in different time zones and even
different continents.

Not much different than now.

My guess is that they probably had a work-around figured out that was not
documented well enough to be found on the Internet today.

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