Mon 2007-04-16 02:40, andrew clarke (3:633/267) wrote to Ryan de Laplante:

 ac> In the mid 90s it was more usual for FidoNet echomail to take a day
 ac> or two to travel from the US to Australia, although sometimes it
 ac> was hard to tell because of time zones.

Back then it was basically impossible to know what time zone an echomail
message was written in.  Control lines like TZUTC were not very common. 
You just had to guess from the Origin line, which didn't always tell you
their location, so then you had to do a nodelist lookup on their address! 
Too bad if their mail got munged and the Origin line was missing, or the
BBS you were using didn't show Origin lines, or their address was
misconfigured.

It's this lack of foresight with regards to the technical specs that always
makes me wonder how FidoNet ever worked.  :-)

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