Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!uh2
From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP WANTED on UUCP for the Amiga
Message-ID: <31578UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 31 Jan 88 16:46:14 GMT
References: <000@amy.UUCP> <595@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Penn Sate Erie--School of Business
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In article <595@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) says:
>
>I had an idea a while ago about how to run a *free* mail network.
>Every phone exchange has a certain set of exchanges it can call for
>free.  But some of those exchanges can call *different* exchanges.  So
>it should be possible to cover great distances with only local calls,
>if you have enough people participating.  In areas with densely
>packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network?
     
I love it!  In fact, I loved it back in about 1978 when this idea
consumed about three consecutive issues of BYTE (or some similar mag).
     
At the time, we were all sure that the system would emerge organically
within a year or so.  FIDO net somes close, though it still ain't all
there.
     
I am probably a good example of a machine that could turn long distance
into local, since I am half way between Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo
(hey! lucky me!), and can call parts of three states cheap.