hi! i just recently joined bbs, and im slightly confused
is micronet/fsxnet/fidonet/etc boards that multiple bbs's have access to?
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hi! i just recently joined bbs, and im slightly confused
is micronet/fsxnet/fidonet/etc boards that multiple bbs's have access to?

Hi Candy,

You are correct - they all all message networks. BBS's typically have a
mixture of local echos and international (message networks).

Nick

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Hello Candy,

Tuesday July 25 2023 19:40, you wrote to All:

hi! i just recently joined bbs, and im slightly confused
is micronet/fsxnet/fidonet/etc boards that multiple bbs's have access
to?

Micronet is a mail network that allows for distributed mail. Basically, my BBS is the main connection. I have hubs, or other BBSes that connect directly to me, that my system passes mail to and from with. Each hub has several systems (nodes) that connect to a hub to get mail.

The exact terminology for this type of networking is "store and forward".

If you see a /1 in a BBS's address, it means they're a hub.

This type of network is also called a "FTN" (for Fidonet Technology Network for Fidonet, the original mail network that pioneered this network topology).

It's 40+ year old technology and is rather esoteric these days but we try to keep it alive. :)

-- Sean

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Re: confusion what micronet is
By: Sean Dennis to Candy Cane on Wed Jul 26 2023 03:40 pm

Hello Candy,

Tuesday July 25 2023 19:40, you wrote to All:

hi! i just recently joined bbs, and im slightly confused
is micronet/fsxnet/fidonet/etc boards that multiple bbs's have access to?

Micronet is a mail network that allows for distributed mail. Basically, my ct to a hub to get mail.

The exact terminology for this type of networking is "store and forward".

If you see a /1 in a BBS's address, it means they're a hub.

This type of network is also called a "FTN" (for Fidonet Technology Network

It's 40+ year old technology and is rather esoteric these days but we try to

-- Sean

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ohh thanks!
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On 26 Jul 23 15:40:47, Sean Dennis said the following to Candy Cane:

It's 40+ year old technology and is rather esoteric these days but we try t keep it alive. :)

The original D'Bridge author worked with JoHo to invent EMSI, but seems that he wrote his own extensions, like chat screens and file-downloads during a mailer session.

He also mentioned in the F1-Help screens that "Greg Dawson" was possibly the original author of Areafix but I can't seem to verify that anywhere.

Apparently CNN during the Gulf War did a quick news snippet about SaudiNet and the different MS-DOS mailers that carry international Echomail traffic for stationed soldiers and their families back home.

Nick

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Hello, Nick!

Replying to a message of Nick Andre to Sean Dennis:

Apparently CNN during the Gulf War did a quick news snippet about
SaudiNet and the different MS-DOS mailers that carry international Echomail traffic for stationed soldiers and their families back home.

They did. I saw that segement live. Talk about creating a buzz in the BBS community!

-- Sean

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On 26 Jul 23 18:18:28, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

Apparently CNN during the Gulf War did a quick news snippet about SaudiNet and the different MS-DOS mailers that carry international Echomail traffic for stationed soldiers and their families back home.

They did. I saw that segement live. Talk about creating a buzz in the BBS community!

Whatever happened to Saudinet?

Nick

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Hello Nick,

Wednesday July 26 2023 19:02, you wrote to me:

Whatever happened to Saudinet?

No clue.

-- Sean

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Hello, Nick!

Replying to a message of Nick Andre to Sean Dennis:

He also mentioned in the F1-Help screens that "Greg Dawson" was
possibly the original author of Areafix but I can't seem to verify
that anywhere.

https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/fido/areafix.txt

Last paragraph: "Thanks to Greg Dawson for all the work he put into making the Areafix utility".

It looks like he held the FTN addresses of 1:106/111, 1:106/1, and 1:106/55 from 1987 to 1996.

-- Sean

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