Subj : Re: Macintosh echo
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sun Mar 05 2017 07:11:28

-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Glen was the only one I knew of. My other Adlaidewhoos all used a local
 DD> to S.A. dial-up service. But they didn't trot all about the Southern
 DD> Hemisphere. My friends in Netherlands and France used a local (to them)
 DD> dial-up service.

 TL> Those would have been the days before Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, wifi
 TL> hotspots and mobile Internet everywhere.  So I can see how an AOL
 TL> account would have made a lot of sense. :)

Others that have survived the interweb's smothering presence are Earthlink and 
Juno. There may be others - but those spring to mind easily -- I have 
correspondents who still use those email addresses. With the advent of the 
World Wide Wait one could ditch the list of local dial-up access numbers if 
trying to access messages away from home.

.... The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is 
waiting
--- MultiMail/Win32
 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)

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