Hello Jan!
Wednesday January 29 1997 10:17, Jan Murphy wrote to martin rahm:
 JM> just one customer in 100 or 1000, and you have to wait for them to get
 JM> around to fixing it.
My Internet-Provider offers me a mail-only-account (email/news - no 
www-surfing!) for just sfr. 95.--/year. Our fidonet club want for the same 
sfr. 120.-- with only a tenth of the capacity. Why I should pay for useless 
amateur work? Better take the professional line! That means not, I don't want 
pay for fidonet. But I will pay a "market price". So, in my opinions it is, 
that our region Gateway not must call to america or australia. My provider is 
online anyway. Walrus shows me, that that way is more efficient.
Count the nodes in zone 2. There are possible more in Germany as in the hole 
zone 1 segment. That's because USA got Compuserve, AOL etc. before in Europe 
the public was informed that telecommunication is possible via PC. So they 
got fidonet only!
I got a bbs since 7 years. Still seven years before I can get a internet 
account. Nobody was interesting in that "stupid" Unix stuff. We gated som 
newsgroups and earnded protests from fido users about the "header pollution". 
Now every shitty fido program is using kludges and a fido message is as such 
long as a internt message. 1 line text = 10 lines header.
 JM> of the time I get friendly netmail back.
be happy :-)
 JM> I'm glad you are staying with MEADOW even though it must be a bother to
 JM> you.  I plan to stick with Fidonet and with Opus as long as it keeps
 JM> going. I'll just keep reminding these young guys (by the way I am your
 JM> age) about how things are supposed to be done.
For me is MEADOW a bit more than configurating Opus.
It's a life - even without Opus :-)
martin
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