28 Nov
2009
28 Nov
'09
10:01 a.m.
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:51:00 -0800, C. Sullivan wrote:
A case study could be made exclusively around WWIV
boards trying to get access to FidoNet once it
was figured out how to get it to
work (on the WWIV side). I personally know of multiple Networks that
made it much harder on WWIV-based boards solely because.. they were WWIV-based boards.
Part of
the explosion of WWIVnet and WWIVlink in the late 80's and early 90's is directly
attributable to this: if
FidoNet wasn't hostile to WWIV sysops, it's likely that WWIVnet would have ever
achieved the level of
traction that it did.
As a VirtualNET operator at the time, I agree. Had the FidoNet contact not been such
@$#%!! when we
got it to work VBBS, VNET would have never atttained 1500+ nodes.
The other Bob