Subj : ERRORS in Route List!
To   : Carl Austin Bennett
From : Lesley-Dee Dylan
Date : Sat May 12 2001 12:58 pm

 CAB> I remember having waited nearly two months to get my 
 CAB> own node listed back in 1993-94, but don't see how 
 CAB> Fido can afford to do things that way any more.

When I joined Fido, which was long before 1993, I contacted a simple, plain end 
node, and said "how do I join?"  That end node contacted the NC and the local 
hub, and BOTH called me voice within three or four hours.  When they found out 
that I was trying to set up on an Atari ST, with FoReM as the BBS package, and 
there were only three others in all of North America who had successfully set 
it up, all within the previous month, they put me in touch with the net's NEC, 
because he had 68000 experience.  The NEC spent many hours over the next few 
days walking me through the entire principles of how the network was supposed 
to run, and what everything did.  After that, things made sense and I was able 
to get things running.

You wouldn't believe how slow MFM drives were for tossing mail.


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