> most folk complained because they didn't understand the 'net and
> many moderators didn't want their echos overrun with no >
accountability... remember that real names rule?
 
Ah, ignorance, the true enemy of human kind. :)  And, actually, I don't
remember the real names rule.. although I can't recall ever posting to an
echo without my real name.
 
>  i can't remember ken's last name...
 
Ken Wilson. I did some Googling and found it in an old Fidonews article
from Jan/02. Wow, looks like my net was involved in a good-ol' fashioned
fido.politcal.war!
 
I can't believe Janis made Z1C (if she's the person I'm thinking of) -- I
seem to recall her being well-hated in the early nineties.
 
Oh well, I always tried to stay away from Fido politics, not my cup of tea.
I tend to lean towards the STFU school of thought on most of the issues
that get the fido types going.
 
> to age my membership, i participated in the P4 vote that put P4 in > place...
 
Wow, dude, you're old! ;)
 
I can't remember exactly when I got my node number for the first time, I
think it was '91, but I have no clue if P4 was in place then. I DO know it
was in place at some point while I was a sysop.
 
Actually, I think P4 may have been what was hindering me when I was trying
to write a tosser for my '64 back in the late 80s, I remember the NC
wouldn't assign me a node number because I didn't have an inbound-capable
mailer running, and back then, nobody would point (pre-4d Binkley, PITA
setup). Somebody finally helped me out with a regular feed, however, and I
DID get my tosser tossing to EBBS-64 from FTSC-001 packets and back. Then,
I came into some money, and bought a 286 and started running Maximus.
 
I just remembered, my tosser also ran on the SuperPET 9000 because it had
more RAM. I hooked the PET and the C64 up to the same IEEE-488 bus, and as
long only ONE machine tried to talk to the same drive at once, things
worked. OH, that was a bastard setup.
 
And speaking of the person who helped me out with a regular feed -- shit, I
just remember, I think it was actually Scott Dudley (although I could be
mistaken)... I think he set me up a special file area on his board (The
Fowl Weather Post!) where I could download packets his mailer had set aside
for me. Download via Xmodem/SUM at that. At 1200 bps. Ouch. 
 
Wow, that takes me back.
 
Wes

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