BT>        We can see the demise of FidoNet sooner that you think. Withi
BT> the neXT 15 years we will be able to take a train to New York from B
BT> and make it there in just 2O minutes. Trips from beantown to Los Ang
BT> will take just 6O minutes. The question is not if but when!
Bill, I don't know whether FIDONet will or will not disappear.  It's too 
early to tell.  Go back and read the prphecies of what would and would 
not disappear fifty or a hundred years ago; about how modern inventions 
would or would not affect how life was already lived and would be lived 
in thier future.  The fact is:  much of the projected thought proved 
invald both ways:  what would stay and what would go.  The internet is 
still relatively new.  For that matter, BBSes are still relatively new. 
 Their relationships with the public are still being worked out.  We 
don't know what ten or fifteen years will bring.
And the presence of fast trains may actually make BBSes more, rather 
than less, valuable.  it might be cheaper to get together once a month, 
via fast trains, with a bunch of friends you talk with on BBSes than to 
stay in contact with people in other ways.
                      sondra
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