[Info-vax] [OT] Eternal September, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Paul Sture]

In article <amssqaFibsmU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <keb5j3$m06$1 at dont-email.me>,
> 	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> > I started out with standalone BBS boards in the early 1980s as a teenage
> > kid, before moving to FidoNet based systems when they became established
> > and then onto systems with various Internet based interfaces so I can
> > clearly remember the time before AOL and what happened when AOL let their
> > customers loose.
> 
> My use of Email (although not much fidonet) predates AOL as well.
> I still throw anything from an AOL address in the trahs without
> even seeing it.

Although I didn't get online until 1995, we used VMS MAIL extensively in 
the early to mid-eighties for collaboration with teams of a dozen to 15 
people.  These systems weren't connected to the outside world, but that 
was fine.

One client took this idea a bit further and wrote an app which did much 
the same as VMS MAIL but with added access levels.  When I came across 
VMS Notes years later I immediately saw how useful it could be.

-- 
Paul Sture