Subj : Re: 40 years of echomail
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Feb 19 2026 11:40 am

Hi Carlos,

On 2026-02-17 23:10:38, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 CN>>> According to some old FidoNews issues and other sources, echomail
 CN>>> was introduced by Jeff Rush on 16 February 1986.

 BF>>    Then you probably didn't look well enough. The first issue was
 BF>> this:

 BF>>    Volume 1, Number 1      1 Dec 84

 BF>>    ... and I'm sure it was distributed via echomail.

 CN> The first mention of 'echomail' in FidoNews was:

 CN>  [...] There's even a new wrinkle
 CN>  in network mail,  called Echomail,  that will greatly expand  the
 CN>  whole meaning of FidoNet, if it doesn't break it first.

 CN> Editorial - FidoNews Volume 3, Number 13 - 31 March 1986

And fts-0004.001 calls it "The Conference Mail System". So you might want to 
search for that too. ;-)


Bye, Wilfred.

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