On 2019 Apr 04 20:06:00, you wrote to me:

 AA>>> ..and the whole thing hinges on the use of full and proper FN LN for
 AA>>> the whole thing to work.  I don't think Policy 4 states that real or
 AA>>> any kind of two-part name with FN LN is even required.

 ml>> it is certainly nothing to do with Policy... policy is for the
 ml>> network... not the traffic carried other than commercial and
 ml>> spam/unwanted traffic...

 AA> My bad.  I think I was thinking of an echopol somewhere?  Or, was it
 AA> just a common expectation in fidonet echo participation via the
 AA> moderator/ rules?

there was an echopol that was written which Z1 rejected quite soundly... at
least one other zone did accept it but they only use bits and pieces of it when
 it suits them... i'm not sure about the other zones, though...

 AA>>> Were you ever a member of Compuserve and the discussion areas?

 ml>> i used compuserve for a very little while... never really liked it...
 ml>> especially since it was on a Model 100 with only a 40 character wide
 ml>> screen and  i think 10 lines tall...

 AA> Outch.  10 lines tall?   Messaging would seem totally awkward.

that and the cost is why i didn't stay any longer than i did...

 AA> Compuserve offered a robo-call program that would call up, collect the
 AA> messages from the areas you were interested in, send off any of your
 AA> messages or email, and disconnect.  Then the same program was used to
 AA> read/edit/compose.

hummm...

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