Subj : Re: Campaigning...
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sat Feb 16 2019 10:33 pm

  Re: Re: Campaigning...
  By: Kurt Weiske to Ozz Nixon on Sat Feb 16 2019 08:32 am

 WD>> I don't think you understand how, in the grand scheme of
 WD>> Fidonet-things, irrelevant Planet Connect was.

 ON>> Again, that blanket of a statement does not hold light to those who
 ON>> lived in the dead-zones of the US.

 KW> In the toll-bound USA of the '90s, it disrupted (in the proper sense of
 KW> the word) the cost-recovery monopolies of the NECs who built billing
 KW> systems around their echomail backbones and turned moving echomail into a
 KW> business.

True and I heard of some of those.  275 itself was not one of those but north
of us, (net no longer exists) was charging at a profit for feeds.  I know
because I took over feeding here (wasn't even NC yet) and disbanded more than a
voluntary donation to help offset nominal costs since I was able to get free
links off a small charge FTP site.  My costs ran about 40$ a month in total.

I'd get about 80$ a year back around Xmas time from various members and footed
the rest ;-)

  xxcarol

 
What I didn't add was filebone.  That was too much on my end of cost as if I
overdid my FTP space, I was charged and there was a lot of bloat-ware at the
time.

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