Subj : Re: CD??
To   : DOUG ALDER
From : The Doctor
Date : Thu Sep 06 2001 04:02 pm

Hi DOUG ALDER, hope you are having a nice day

TD>>for dos/win/os2/*nix. Trav's guestimate right now is 12 700meg cd's.
DA>Wow ... that's some collection. The only thing I have left of my files is 
DA>the Riders of the Crystal wind BOS

 Which if I'm not mistaken I just saw fly by during the new files
bit on Trav's system. ;>

TD>>Sounds like a xref of the pods & fido lists might not hurt.
DA>Worth a shot I'd say.

 We have a volunteer! Do I hear a second? <G>

TD>>Not to speak bad of Jay, but I think his refusal to use the newer
TD>>methods of echo access is what killed the net much earlier than it
TD>>should have died. Like fido, it was going out but access by email
TD>>and so forth would've kept people connected for a while longer.
DA>I agree.

 2 of the echo's I have went to mailinglists because of the lack of
local bbs's. By the time I found where most everybody went, fido was
finally past the telnet stage w/ things like nntp, http, etc.

 OfC none of the people on the list's knew abt these new fangled ways
of messaging, so it's up to me to keep putting it in front of them. And
since the lists have a tendency to lose mail like fido does, it's now
a case of `What's the difference?' <G>

 Biggest one I can see is that if the net crashes, the bbs's can still
fall back to pots links in a flash.

TD>>Word is that a bunch of PODSters set up a mailing list on (now)
TD>>yahoogroups somewhere.
DA>THat might be interesting - I'll have to go have a look for it.

 I don't know for sure what the name was, but it was on onelist. (now
yahoogroups) Give PODS a try in the list list.

 -=> Yours sincerely, The Doctor <=-

.... "Geez! Did I put in my new Godlike Abilities batteries by mistake?"-Anna
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 * Origin: Nothing can stop me--not even common sense (1:387/710)

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