Sun 2007-04-15 09:01, Ryan de Laplante (1:229/1394) wrote to Peter Knapper:

 PK>> A 4 day round trip?... you were lucky. I remember 5 days each way 
 PK>> (a 10 day round trip) from here (NZ) to Europe........;-)

 RdL> OMG unbelievable!  That must have been quite painful.  Imagine
 RdL> businesses relied on email today that took 5 days to be delivered.
 RdL> You'd might as well write a letter on paper and mail it. 

In the mid 90s it was more usual for FidoNet echomail to take a day or two
to travel from the US to Australia, although sometimes it was hard to tell
because of time zones.  Australian echomail hubs would usually only poll
their US hub over dialup modem once every morning, although I think some
polled twice a day.  Which reminds me, the lack of full routing information
has always bothered me with FidoNet mail, but that's another rant that I
probably started 15 years ago.

Interzone netmail reliability was always very hit-and-miss in my
experience, unless you "crashed" it direct.  Maybe this is less
true now, but some sysops could be a bit lax on their netmail routing these
days.  Who knows.  Most people using BinkP mailers should just be
crashmailing each other now.  Bit of a shame echomail can't be adapted to
suit.  Although, I have an idea... ;-)

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