Subj : mail delays
To   : Andrew Clarke
From : Ryan de Laplante
Date : Sun Apr 15 2007 05:55 pm


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

I remember sometimes waiting more than 4 days for a response, so that must have 
been a time zone issue.  Australia is 12 hours ahead of me. 

I always thought it was neat that fidonet is available on newsgroups, and some 
people have even made it available on the web.  Every message we type on fido 
is searchable on google.


Ryan


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