>> I personally hoped that the Fidonet should grow because of the nostalg
>> of BBSing, but I guess that I was to optimistic.  In Norway there are
>> just a couple of BBSes left that has Fidonet areas, and it seems to be
>> the same situation for the rest of the countries connected.
> Some areas are having a mini-growth pattern and holding steady.  Z1 has a
> grunch of Internet BBS access sites (so do others) that seem to be populated
>again with many callers.  I've even got echos that are almost 100% callers vic
> sysops, running 100 messages a day from those sites and no, they arent gated
> internet newsgroups either.

Sounds good, it's almost as the happy 80's. :)

>The face of Fidonet is slowly shifting, for good or bad, depending on the view
> the person has.  For me, I get as much traffic as I can read still and am
> behind still in some echos .

Personally I mostly read Norwegian and Nordic echoes because of a limited
spear time.  These echoes are as good as dead, just a couple of messages a
day.

Espen.

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