Subj : Internet Rex To : Joe Delahaye From : Roy Witt Date : Tue Oct 02 2012 04:53 pm 01 Jan 70 00:00, Joe Delahaye wrote to Roy Witt: >> JD> You and many others. >> >> Even those who were successful weren't any help... >> JD> Most likely because the couldnt remember what it was they did to get JD> it to work Paul, the person I asked to help, already had Fidonet working under Wildcat. I was one of his users who was active in the one and only echo I was interested in at the time: Chatter. This was 1990 or so and I had the same version of WC with a lot of game doors, files and local msg areas on it, but no Fidonet. That was frustrating to say the least. But, in retrospect, that was probably a good thing I didn't get it working, as the PC running WC was in my office at my shop. I probably would never have gotten any work done. 8^( JD> I ran PCBoard clone at first, and then purchased PCB. JD> My host was long distance, and at the time we could not do FTN, but JD> we had Fido. QWK worked OK back then. Then Internail came to visit, JD> and I purchased a copy of that. It did everything I wanted, JD> including tossing the mail in native PCB format. Interestingly, host 202 wasn't the source of any echomail in that net. The entire group of net-nodes paid into a pool to buy a dedicated computer to run echomail. Dunno the source, but there were several hubs, all assigned 202/x00 numbers to distribute mail to their 202/909 like numbered nodes who were their downlinks. I recall having knock down drag out fights with 202/900 because his software was screwing up most of the time. R\%/itt .... Mark Owen: "Hey, did you ever hear anything about that beer? .... Fellow SEAL: "You believed that s**t, I bet you voted for change too, .... SUCKER." --- GoldED+/W32 with D'Bridge 3.82 * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian (1:387/22) .