ON>> Innovation is a challenge with Fidonot - as I learned in the early ON>> 90's when I was developing as a contractor for Planet Connect - to ON>> help get FIDO on the Satelite - so many ppl pooh-pood the idea. ON>> Making policy fit their argument, calling and leaving threatening ON>> voicemails, it is very odd how some people in the peanut gallery get ON>> really uptight with change.
WD> I don't think you understand how, in the grand scheme of WD> Fidonet-things, irrelevant Planet Connect was.
on the contrary... Planet Connect helped to shed the artifical constrains put on operators as to where you can get your echomail feed from... people went to PC because it was slightly cheaper and they could get a full pull of all areas and file distribution areas carried on PC... it was a huge amount of traffic and you didn't need to worry about overloading someone else's landline for a large pull of echo and file areas and being charged more for it... some nets had decent sharing plans but others didn't...
the main problem was *Cs and others telling everyone they had to pull echomail and files from their NC/NEC or assigned Hub... many didn't understand the split was those requirements are for netmail, not echomail and files... that myth was put down hard when PC came on the scene... there are some that still try, today, to say this same thing but the truth is discovered pretty quickly and new/(re)joining operators are properly told they can get their echomail and files from any other system they can negotiate a deal with... they are also generally pointed toward systems willing and capable of taking on new links...
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