I just wanted to say how much our long discussions reminds me of my very
first days BBSing.  It must have been around 1990-1992? My favorite BBS
happened to be running Maximus.  The guy owned a computer store and back
then businesses had a BBS, not a website.  In 1993 I wanted to start my own
BBS, so he recommended Maximus. Big mistake for him, because I must have
wasted hours of his time with questions about everything.  I didn't even
know how to extract ARJ files :)  

Anyway, he was on FidoNet, and I spent countless hours reading echo's.  One
of the people I talked to the most was in Australia, like you.  I don't
remember what we talked about, but I do remember it would take 2 days for
my messages to get to him, and 2 days for his responses to come back.  Back
then packetmail was delivered overnight, and I guess it had to go through
so many hubs before getting to Australia that it just took a long time. 

Those were the days!  BBSing was the most incredible thing to me, and
that's why I keep mine around to this day.


Ryan


--- Maximus 3.01