rdd(a)rddavis.org wrote... Indeed... Happy days :-). I was sysop of Protocol BBS in lovely Horsham, Sussex, UK up until late 1993 or so. Frankly, Fidonet was more enjoyable than most stuff on the internet if you ask me :-). The phone bills were a killer though (I was zone gatewaying for Amiganet, between zone 1 and 4 IIRC (US and Europe, anyway,) so nightly international phone calls were fairly scary...) That ran on the Amiga - I forget the name of the software I used, although writing my own was my first big project in C, so in the latter days it ran on my homebrew "Panorama BBS" software... If I ever get to recover the Miggy it's probably all still on there... To drag slightly back on topic, before that I had been a great user of Compunet, Prestel & Telecom Gold (BT's X.25 network,) all via the good old Commodore modem for the C64... A roaring 300 baud half duplex, or breaking the sound barrier at 1200/75 full :-). I really hope that modem is still in the loft somewhere... Anyway... Re. the suggestions of a sort of classic private network, I'd love to be involved somehow. I've always wanted to do something like that with packet radio, but never got round to it... Cheers, Tim. -- Tim Walls at home in Croydon - Reply to tim(a)snowgoons.fsnet.co.uk