Subj : Re: Campaigning...
To : Kurt Weiske
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sat Feb 16 2019 10:33 pm
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.
