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- What is Echomail?
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- Echomail is a system where a message may be entered on one bbs, and
- it will be eventually be transferred to all of the other systems in the
- echo area. This is much less expensive for the sysop than netmail is. In
- an echomail system, the message is entered on one system, then trans-
- ferred to a "host" system. The host then calls up all of the other
- systems and transferes the message to them. Around midnight that night,
- when the phone rates are the lowest, the host system usually calls up
- another host which distributes the messages to it's local nodes and in
- turn calls another host and so on until the messages has reached all of
- the nodes in the area.
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