On (16 Sep 02) Bob Short wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Bob,


 BS> On 15 Sep 02  23:12:05, Frank Vest said the following to Bob Short:

FV> Drop the "consisting of thousands of nodes". It designates a number.
FV> What happens /IF/ Fidonet drops to 999 Nodes? Don't say that it can't
FV> happen or that Fidonet will die before then. Remember, Fidonet started
FV> with only a "few" Nodes passing mail... and as long as there are two
FV> Nodes in two different places, it is still a "global network". :-)

 BS> To me, it's a matter of viability and vitality.  See my last post to
 BS> Steven on this...  :)

Viability and vitality can be measured several ways. As example:
Fidonet is a message network. If there are two Fidonet Nodes that
produce dozens, maybe hundreds, of message a day each and pass these
messages back and forth, is that not viable and showing vitality?


Frank

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