28 Nov
2009
28 Nov
'09
8:40 p.m.
In my experience, into the back pockets of the person running the local
Network and/or particular well-connected Nodes.
That's too bad. Net 138 wasn't like that at all. Everyone pitched in to
cover the cost of the net's mail & echomail processor ("Ginger" was the
machine's name).
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.
Now that's really interesting. It's almost 180 degrees from what I
experienced back then. Many alternate WWIV networks (ICENet, etc) were
formed because WWIVNet people were being thrown off the net because they
were also members of Fidonet. I do know that WWIV was seen (rightly or
not) as the software of choice for "pirate" boards. That was often used
as an excuse to prevent WWIV boards from getting Fidonet numbers - this
never happened in Net 138 that I knew of however.
g.
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