*** Quoting Espen Berg from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

EB> I personally hoped that the Fidonet should grow because of the nostalg
EB> of BBSing, but I guess that I was to optimistic.  In Norway there are
EB> just a couple of BBSes left that has Fidonet areas, and it seems to be
EB> 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 vice ¨sysops, running 100 messages a day from those sites and
no, they arent gated ¨internet newsgroups either.

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 .
                                       xxcarol

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