He ran a BBS indeed, and also helped set up the International MSX Mailinglist.
(And the ILSE search engine)

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p.s. congratulations with your birthday not too long ago... I guess... ;p

thanks :-)

grts
wiebe

@Guvyer800: you have a very good memory :-)

And I set up the MSX Echomail system, like the PC-FidoNET system.

If I'll try to explain it now, it will sound pretty lame, compared to e-mail as we know it now, but in it's time, 20 (Dutch) BBS's were linked and you could write messages from one system to another from a local BBS. [we where young, and had little money, so calling long distance was not an option :-)]

I've found some references to 18:000/* signings, which were the addresses MSX-BBS's would have to identify them by. (Just like in the 'real' Fido-net world)

Later on, you could also send files to all systems, combined with previous messages in this forum you add one and one together...

(the '18' in the address was my age at the time, so it must have been 1993 when this all started, and ended with a huge crash of my 20MB hard drive)

but we are 'a bit' off topic now ... SD Snatcher was/is a nice game!

grts
wiebe

TNI BBS never was a part of Echomail, because in my opinion that system caused BBS'es to become generic, losing their unique identity.

Guyver: that's a valid reason, but as we are now discussing MSX topics on this forum, msx people wanted to chat with eachother in those days. MSX EchoMail was just one of the ways to do so. Although discussion was mainly about the echomail itself. And personally , it was fun creating it:-)

But even I must admit, I didn't call other systems that much as I used to do...