-=> On 08-21-04  11:47,  Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-
 -=> spoke to Steven Horn about flaming again ? <=-

 MVDV> Then you'r lucky there are still some left. I have been moderating the
 MVDV> Dutch  national points area since 1992 and I have seen the flow 
 MVDV> peak in 1995 at 500 messages a week and then see it drop 
 MVDV> till virtually zero today. 90% of the traffic now consists 
 MVDV> of my weekly robot posting. :-(

  OTOH, the echo I help moderate is still in the top 10 for numbers of
  messages, and has a core of members who communicate and share with
  each other.  It is still quite healthy, albeit not at the levels it
  was 5 years ago.
 
 > my guess is that not very many people call into BBSes to
 > participate in echoes any more.

  The members of the echo I help moderate use the internet mostly to
  contact BBSes to participate in the echo.

 MVDV> In Z2 users are an extinct species as far as I can tell. 

   Why is that?  Did they start reading the sysop echos and get scared
   away?

 MVDV> Dutch echomail dropped below critical mass some 3 to 4 
 MVDV> years ago. French echomail is gone too.

  We have at least two members from France, both of whom access the
  echos via Zone 1 using the internet.

 MVDV> What remains are the Russians...

  Don't seem to have any of them in the echo I help moderate, but they
  would be welcome.   As it is, we have participants from five
  continents at present.  The only one missing is South America.

  Bottom line:  The sky is not falling.

                        dale (at) min (dot) net
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