Subj : mail delays
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : andrew clarke
Date : Mon Apr 16 2007 02:40 am

Mon 2007-04-16 02:40, andrew clarke (3:633/267) wrote to Ryan de Laplante:

 ac> In the mid 90s it was more usual for FidoNet echomail to take a day
 ac> or two to travel from the US to Australia, although sometimes it
 ac> was hard to tell because of time zones.

Back then it was basically impossible to know what time zone an echomail 
message was written in.  Control lines like TZUTC were not very common.  You 
just had to guess from the Origin line, which didn't always tell you their 
location, so then you had to do a nodelist lookup on their address!  Too bad if 
their mail got munged and the Origin line was missing, or the BBS you were 
using didn't show Origin lines, or their address was misconfigured.

It's this lack of foresight with regards to the technical specs that always 
makes me wonder how FidoNet ever worked.  :-)

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