Hello Jonathan!
Replying to a message of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to Jack Troughton:
Well, this whole FIDO thing is pretty cool...
JdBP> Indeed. Grab yourself one of the several door, message
JdBP> scanning/tossing, and messagebase reader softwares for OS/2 and set
JdBP> yourself up as a point.
JdBP> ( I gather that some people point over TCP/IP. Looking at the
JdBP> relative costs of calls to ISPs and direct FTN calls on my
JdBP> telephone bills over the past few years, I personally don't see any
JdBP> merit in doing this. )
Since local calls are free in N. America (Zone 1), and possibly elsewhere, I used to get my 'local' feed over TCP/IP (the guy I got it from was a local 'free' call). But I could download from him at 44k (rarely got much faster than the 33.6k I would get direct). And, most importantly, I didn't tie up his
line, and I didn't get busy signals nearly as often.
Now, however, I don't even have my modem turned on. No phone line for it. Just the cablemodem, and all my fido feed is via the internet.
Darin
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