IK> It's always had holes.  However traffic in this echo is near zero
 IK> without allowing for that.  It's dropped all over; the echos that had
 IK> low volume to start with are now near zero.
 RW> The cooking echos seem to be holding their own, maybe 
 RW> due to the chatty over-
 RW> the-back-fence nature of them.  I haven't spent much 
 RW> time browsing an Internet
 RW> Newsgroups, the few I looked at seemed full of trash and flames.
This one and a few others have come back from the dead in the last month.  A 
few others I know of dropped to a lower level of traffic (an improvement) and 
are steady.  
The Internet newsgroups vary.  The Mystery version of this echo is pretty 
good ... you don't even have to hit the delete key too often if you have an 
ISP that "filters."  THAT's the coming thing.  However, for Mystery, the 
"biggest deal on the net" is the Dorothy-L Listserver list and its growing 
number of spin offs (HOUNDS-L, GASLIGHT, etc.).
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