-=> On 05-19-04  12:08,  Oleg Tews <=-
 -=> spoke to Gordon Lewicky about International Coodinator <=-

 OT> You should visit z2.r50/r46 etc. to see the difference. We have
 OT> hundreds of echoes and nearly to nothing of BBSs, instead of bbs users
 OT> we have plenty of points. Echo-communication -- is what's keeping
 OT> those people in fidonet. 

   I have said the same thing many times -- it is the fidonet echos that
   are the current lifeblood of fidonet.  Without them, there would be
   no reason for existence (IMO).

   As a matter of curiosity -- can you give some sense of what is the
   message volume in the echos you speak of?  I would expect that many
   of them are Russian language and do not leave your regions.  Hence
   they would not get counted by those who publish daily, weekly and/or
   monthly counts in the STATS echo.  There are a number of English,
   Italian, Spanish, Brazilian and German echos that do have their
   statistics posted there -- with a total of 55,000 messages last
   month in all of the echos counted.

 GL> Fidonet is not about you or I, or Ward or Malcolm, or 20 or 2000,
 GL> or Vlist or Witt. It's all about our users.

 OT> That is correct.

  Agreed.

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