Subj : Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun Dec 11 2022 03:24 pm

 Re: Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
 By: Carol Shenkenberger to Nick Andre on Sun Dec 11 2022 03:01 pm

CS> Some areas had them. LA was one of them. The NC required a sysop 'point'
CS> for 2 years. I was south of it in net202 and happily doing boss node for 5
CS> or 6 at a time then helping them apply. Brenda Donvan was NC202 and happy
CS> to accecpt the new nodes applying with my point address as she knew they
CS> were functional with minimal hub assist needed.

Wow, that's a new one to me!

The San Francisco bay area (net 161 and net 125) back in the day had its share of power grabs. The NEC not only had a cost recovery program in place, he tried to discourage people from going outside of the net with Planet Connect or other alternative means ("outing" people who opted out and complaining publicly that doing so would make it difficult to afford the cost recovery program.)

The final straw, if memory serves was that he wanted the net to pay for a fairly high-powered PC and a US Robotics modem, just for handling the mail.

In retrospect, there were probably over 100 nodes or more in the network, and LD was pricey back then.
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