Sergey wrote to Gerald at 23:16 28 Oct:

 SDO> Hello, Gerald! How are you doing?

 SDO> On Monday October 28 2002 at 14:50 andrew clarke wrote to you: 

>> Decided to enter a message here to see if the echo was still alive.
ac> Well I don't know about alive, but your message arrived here safely. ;-)

 SDO> And I even saw it! Can you imagin that? 8-)

 SDO> It seems to me that american side of fidonet becomes more and more
 SDO> passive. Does anybody have another view on reality? :)

No Sergey.. I'm afraid to admit that your observation is a fairly accurate portrayal.

It seems the majority of "participation" in our zone exists in
one or the other sysop/administrative echos and primarily consists of
people bitching about others.

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