BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: 40 years of echomail De: Oli Data: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:55:48 +0100 ----------------------------------------------------------- 16 Feb 26 00:02, you wrote to All: CN> According to some old FidoNews issues and other sources, echomail was CN> introduced by Jeff Rush on 16 February 1986. "In February 1986, Jeff Rush developed FidoNet's form of enews called echomail. As very few FidoNetters were familiar with the Usenet, they were quite surprised at the popularity and rate of growth of echomail. Within two weeks, an international echomail conference, MODULA-2, was propagated between Europe, Australia, and North America, and today the daily volume of compressed echomail is over eight megabytes. The social effects, both good and bad, of echomail on the network parallel those of the Usenet." --Randy Bush, FidoNet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/163381.163383 or https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt "HISTORY OF THE CONFERENCE MAIL SYSTEM In late 1985, Jeff Rush, a Fido sysop in Dallas, wanted a convenient means of sharing ideas with the other Dallas sysops. He created a system of programs he called Echomail, and the Dallas sysops' Conference was born. Within a short time sysops in other areas began hearing of this marvelous new gadget and Echomail took on a life of its own. Today, a scant year and a half later, the FidoNet public network boasts a myriad of conferences varying in size from the dozen-or- so participants in the FidoNet Technical Standards Committee Conference to the Sysops' Conference with several hundred participants. It is not uncommon for a node to carry 30 or more conferences and share those conferences with 10 or more nodes." --Bob Hartman, The Conference Mail System / FTS-0004 (1987) * Origin: kakistocracy (2:280/464.47) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]