Hi Gaines,

You asked:

GW>GW>........................................................... That is
GW>GW>why we keep pointing David to appropriate echos for the OS and
GW>GW>hardware he is using.

GW>   Perhaps that's why this echo is down to a measly 7-10 messages a

Over the last 10 days it's averaged 13.1 messages a day here.
The 10 days before that it was 13.4.
It looks like messages some may be going missing on their way towards
you :-(

GW>day.  Back in 1990, when I first started hanging around here, it was
GW>a rare day that less than 120 messages were posted.

I doubt it, _all_ the FIDO echos I take are down by similar ratios :-(.
I'm now takeing twice as many echos as I was a few years ago, and my
donwload is half the size it was then, and I've added some fairly
high volume echos (like OS2) that I didn't take then (OS2 alone was
around a 250k/day download back then, my current total echo downloads
rarely exceed 100k/day).

GW>  Given the dying state of this echo, IMHO OS and hardware specific
GW>questions should be *encouraged*.   After all, there's always C.L.C for
GW>the ANSI puritans.  :-)>

The echo's we're referring him to have exactly the same problem with
volume, so I see no point in encourageing discussion here which is
dubiously on topic when there are echos where his questions are
specifically on topic.
C.L.C? I don't have access to C.L.C, it's not FIDO...

George

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