Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Testing Mystic echomail
From:    Mike Dippel(21:4/176)
Date:    Fri Oct 09, 2026 19:18

On 10/9/2026 4:03 PM, Nightfox wrote to Dumas Walker:

->   Re: Re: Testing Mystic echomail
->   By: Dumas Walker to esc on Fri Oct 09 2026 07:39 pm
->
->  E>> Interestingly, of all the boards I called back in the 90s, none
->  E>> of them were on Fidonet. In fact, none really carried FTN! I remember
->
->  DW> Me, either.  From 1987 (when I first started BBSing) until c1993 or later,
->  DW> if a board in the area I lived in was on a network and I was a caller,
->  DW> they were almost always on the GT Power Network.  That was not an FTN.
->
->  DW> I didn't really get all that involved on Fidonet until I started carrying
->  DW> it around 2000.
->
-> Interesting..  I remember multiple (tempted to say many) BBSes in my area that
-> carried FidoNet. I started running my own BBS in 1994, and I felt very late to
-> the party when I eventually added FidoNet to my BBS in 1998.
->
-> Nightfox
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In the late 80's I was running a Mustang Wildcat system on DOS with 4 phone lines.
I wanted to carry Fidonet but it would have involved doing a near-zone phone call which
would have cost me some big bucks.  I couldn't justify the expense.

Mike Dippel


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