On 2019 Feb 16 02:21:36, you wrote to Ozz Nixon:

 ON>> Innovation is a challenge with Fidonot - as I learned in the early
 ON>> 90's when I was developing as a contractor for Planet Connect - to
 ON>> help get FIDO on the Satelite - so many ppl pooh-pood the idea.
 ON>> Making policy fit their argument, calling and leaving threatening
 ON>> voicemails, it is very odd how some people in the peanut gallery get
 ON>> really uptight with change.

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

on the contrary... Planet Connect helped to shed the artifical constrains put
on operators as to where you can get your echomail feed from... people went to
PC because it was slightly cheaper and they could get a full pull of all areas
and file distribution areas carried on PC... it was a huge amount of traffic
and you didn't need to worry about overloading someone else's landline for a
large pull of echo and file areas and being charged more for it... some nets
had decent sharing plans but others didn't...

the main problem was *Cs and others telling everyone they had to pull echomail
and files from their NC/NEC or assigned Hub... many didn't understand the split
was those requirements are for netmail, not echomail and files... that myth was
put down hard when PC came on the scene... there are some that still try,
today, to say this same thing but the truth is discovered pretty quickly and
new/(re)joining operators are properly told they can get their echomail and
files from any other system they can negotiate a deal with... they are also
generally pointed toward systems willing and capable of taking on new links...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Courage makes everything look different.
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