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echo: bluewave
to: BRUCE CLARK
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2004-04-14 01:35:08
subject: Re: My BBS access

-=> Quoting BRUCE CLARK to NANCY BACKUS <=-

 BC> BBSNETS doesn't have 1k Kermit so I have to exit to DOS if I have 
 BC> anything over aprox 50k to upload/download, otherwise I use G-modem 
 BC> (modems do error correction). I've found that too many errors creep 
 BC> in on files over 100k though. Apparently the satellite link isn't 
 BC> that good without software error correction. 

You'll *definitely* do better (for fidonet stuff anyway) running a
mailer or a point program and connecting to one of the local fidonet
nodes. 

Or dialing into one of the ones that's still running a BBS.


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