Noun
echomail (uncountable)
(computing) Messages transmitted between bulletin board systems and presented on discussion forums.
At the same time, it was noted that some power users were interested in using FidoNet protocols as a way of delivering the large quantities of echomail to their local machines where it could be read offline. Source: Internet
Echomail was so popular that for many users, Echomail was the FidoNet. Source: Internet
Echomail did not necessarily use the same distribution pathways as normal netmail, and the distribution routing was stored in a separate setup file (not unlike the original ROUTES. Source: Internet
Echomail was not the only system to use the file attachment feature of netmail to implement store-and-forward capabilities. Source: Internet
In Fido's heyday, sending a Netmail message to a user on a distant FidoNet node, or participating in an Echomail discussion could take days, especially if any FidoNet nodes or hubs in the message's route only made one transfer call per day. Source: Internet
Points were introduced to address this, allowing technically savvy users to receive the already compressed and batched Echomail (and Netmail) and read it locally on their own machines. Source: Internet