Hi Philip!

Thursday May 18 2006, Philip Lozier wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 PL>>> what I get out of it, but couldn't assume to speak definitivly on
 PL>>> their behalf.

 VD>> Please ask they to tell there about differences between Russia-FIDO
 VD>> and Z1-FIDO. I think that this differences obstructions
 VD>> understanding our life for other sysops in this echo.

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

Language problem - so we need software with cirillic support. And very high
cost intercity phone calls require connections over Internet.

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

 PL> Other than that, no bites on any "political" issues.

 PL> It was mentioned that due to the slow "coming of age" of
the internet over
 PL> there that FidoNet had a chance to develop and mature in that part of the
 PL> world.

 PL> Another comment was that due to the Russian echoes being available in
 PL> usenet under fido7.* that new "traditional" fidonet node
and point growth
 PL> is stalled and the region is shrinking because of it.

 PL> As far as a unique zone, or Z2 "issues", no bites.

Yes at all.

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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