Hi Michiel!

Tuesday May 23 2006, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 PL>>> Well.. when asked both seem to refer to a difference in the
 PL>>> softwares used by people here and there, and that points are a
 PL>>> big thing.

 VD>> Language problem - so we need software with cirillic support.

 MV> You are not the only one that can not make do with the 26 letters in the
 MV> ASCII character set. Many European languages have that problem, mine
 MV> included. Nothing new.

It is correct only particulary - you can use codepage 850 (or 1250) which
have all symbols, and this is default codepage for many software. But we
must use codepage 866 and 1251 and KOI-8R and same another because not
exist standart of cirillic symbols (each OS have own standart)...

 VD>> And very high cost intercity phone calls require connections over
 VD>> Internet.

 MV> In that you are not unique either. *Every* region in FidoNet has had to
 MV> deal with that problem at some time in its history. Hell, we - R28 -, had
 MV> a seven year cost sharing war over telephone costs.

May be.

 VD>> As I see on 1:140/1 - R50's echoes is very majority of all echoes of
 VD>> Z1. I down't know what traffic in Z1 echoes per a day, in R50
 VD>> backbone have 8 megabytes per a day (250 MB per a month) unpacked
 VD>> datas.

 MV> In the haydays of FidoNet it was the same in Western Europe. You are just
 MV> lagging a few years behind.

May be.

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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