26 Oct 16 22:26, you wrote to me:

 ml>> reread my first statement after FWIW... there is no real hierarchy in
 ml>> echomail...........two systems on hold and that only because i cannot
 ml>> connect to them... i don't know why and their operators can't seem to
 ml>> figure out how to get set up so that i can but they (supposedly) have
 ml>> callers connecting to their systems... why they can get one working
 ml>> and not the other is beyond me...

 rc> Obviously thats changed since the 90's...

no, it hasn't changed... what happened is that nodes woke up and saw the
truth...

 rc> It was very very well beaten in to nodes in my area at that time. Thou
 rc> shalt get echos via the net hub/NC/ what ever it was... Otherwise you
 rc> ran the risk of be expelled..

yeah, that was all roun out of town on a rail when Planet Connect came around
with their satellite feed of the full fidonet backbones and file distribution
networks... those *Cs/*ECs that played those games didn't last too long after
that...

 rc> I also can see one little glitch some where misconfigured and huge
 rc> amounts of dupes being moved around... in 2016 via TCP/IP who cares
 rc> mostly.. in the modem days... Some one definitely cares real quick.

that's the story some use these days... some of us old timers still don't like
it but :shrug:

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Those Polish folks sure make one hell of a good shoe-shining compound.
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