>>> Does anybody look at this echo?
>>> If "yes", why dom't you say something?
>> Something!
>> Well to be serious, I read this echo now and then, but there are
>> ages since the last post was done.  I guess there are faster ways
>> to communicate with Americans in 2004, so this echo is not
>> frequently used anymore.
> I knew it!
>As soon as I wrote, "...why don't you say something?" I
thought, "Some joker i
>going to reply, "Something."  A few more seconds and I
decided to leave it lik
> that because it might offer more incentive to someone to respond, :-)

Well, It worked you got my attention. :)

> Anyhow, "Hi!"   And thanks for the reply.
> I lost my connection to this echo nearly six months ago and just got things
> going again last week.  I had a backlog of nearly 8 megs of messages in the
> echoes I try to follow, but Eurlink stayed empty all that time.

The last messages in this echo are from July 2003, so no wonder.  In Norway
there are just a few Fidonet users (and echos) left, I guess this is the
situation in many countries (sad, but true).

>Yes, there are faster ways than Fidonet, but newsgroups just don't turn me on.
> I just don't get the feeling of closeness to the person to whom I'm
"talking"
> that seems to be a part of Fidonet echoes.

I agree. There is more closeness in the small Fidonet-community than in
other huge networks like Usenet etc.  In Fidonet you are you, at Usenet you
are just "another user" (a small fish in the big sea).

> You want to trade some more typing or was "Something" enough
for you?  :-)

I'd like to trade lots of typing, the "something" phrase was just
a lame joke.
:)


Espen.

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