Subj : Echomail
To   : Daryl Stout
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Mar 27 2016 11:26 am


26 Mar 16 18:45, you wrote to me:

 DS> With FIDONet, systems that are linked to the echo, see posts from
 DS> other downlinks...sometimes before they get to the
 DS> sponsoring/moderating system...and before they are dealt with by a
 DS> moderator. I've wondered though, that even with a feed cut, would an
 DS> offending poster try another way to get to the echo??

sure they'll go BBS hopping hoping to find another BBS with the same echo... 
back in the day, it was harder than today... if you lived somewhere with a lot 
of BBSes it was as easy as it is today in that you could call all of them for a 
local call... doing the hopping thing to get around a ban was one reason why 
sysops started talking to each other to be able to block users that were doing 
this... today many systems are available via telnet or ssh or similar so 
today's users can hop all around the world looking for BBSes with the echo they 
are blocked from...

)\/(ark

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