= Сообщение: 4277 из 7124 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Carol Shenkenberger 1:275/100 16 Feb 19 22:33:45 Кому : Kurt Weiske 16 Feb 19 22:33:45 Тема : Re: Campaigning... FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=7094.ftsc_pub@1:275/100+20ce27cf На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=5441.ftscpubl@1:218/700+20cdbd1a = Кодировка сообщения определена как: ASCII ================================== ============================================================================== 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.
