Subj : Re: fsxNet mail moves so fast!
To   : paulie420
From : Avon
Date : Tue Apr 02 2024 08:28 pm

On 01 Apr 2024 at 07:24p, paulie420 pondered and said...
 
 pa> Agree - fsxNet was one of the first things I found when I came back to
 pa> BBSing, and as you said FTNs are much different from the FidoNet days. I
 pa> remember knowing how many hours/days netmail would take to reach
 pa> different friends that I'd write to depending on where they were in the
 pa> world. :P

I recall in the 90's a number of local FTN networks in the city I was living, and then there were networks like Demimonde, RGSNet (Renegade Support Network), of course Fidonet etc... I mostly read and posted to echomail but did do some limited netmails often to local sysops etc...  but it always felt then (as it does now) to be a fairly quick thing to post something, come back next day or two and read some replies.

But with TCP/IP traffic these days it can be minutes now instead of days depending on if you strike it right with whomever is reading the echomail areas around the globe.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz 

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