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to: OZZ NIXON
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2019-02-16 08:40:00
subject: Re: Campaigning...

-=> Ozz Nixon wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

 WD> I don't think you understand how, in the grand scheme of
 WD> Fidonet-things, irrelevant Planet Connect was.

 ON> Again, that blanket of a statement does not hold light to those who
 ON> lived in the dead-zones of the US.

In the toll-bound USA of the '90s, it disrupted (in the proper sense of the
word) the cost-recovery monopolies of the NECs who built billing systems
around their echomail backbones and turned moving echomail into a business.


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