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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