One thing to remember of message hopping. I ran a BBS in Oshawa, if you posted a public message to it, it was copied to the Whitby BBS, who in turn copied it t

One thing to remember of message hopping. I ran a BBS in Oshawa, if you posted a public message to it, it was copied to the Whitby BBS, who in turn copied it to the BBS in Pickering, who in turn copied to a Toronto BBS where it was copied to multiple systems. In affect the public section was one big BBS it was just that messages would take days to relay around. I remember some silly reporter did not understand and he called BBSes all around North America posting the same message, and for the next week or so you would see repeats of his message all the way from California and Florida.