![]() This was usually run by someone with money because their modems were making long-distance calls (including overseas) on a regular basis. From there, the hub delivered it to a "star", which was a regional hub that dealt in larger volumes of mail. My local hub was in Seguin, TX (~30 miles away) and it felt like a very big deal when my computer dialed him up to do a delivery. If you lived in a rural location, this meant that you had to make a long-distance call to deliver the mail. The mailer took this bundle of mail and dialed out on the modem to the local FidoNET hub. Then, another program bundled it up with other emails into some kind of binary packaging and passed it along to the mailer. First, you wrote the email in your mail editor (I loved GoldED). It took a ton of effort just to get your BBS to participate in the network and once you did, data moved so slowly that you became very observant of each step of the process of communicating. ![]() E-mails sent over FidoNET had an amazing weight to them that's hard to describe. The most amazing thing about it all was that it was the public internet before there was a public internet. ![]() I never ventured into the "dark" side like OP-I was too scared of my parents-so I ran a legit FidoNET BBS using the RemoteAccess BBS software and the Frontdoor mailer (and later, Maximus and BinkleyTerm). I was in high school and I've never been as interested in computers and communications as I was then. The late 80s/early 90s BBS scene was an amazing time for me.
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