-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Scott Little <=-

 SL> If you ask me, Fido will eventually crumble under it's own weight, unless
 SL> something is done. The nodelist will eventually need to reside on it's own 
 SL> 100 meg HDD. The fido addressing scheme will just have to change.

 PE> So you reckon it's going to have about a million sysops in Fidonet,
 PE> followed by all million of them simultaneously deciding to leave
 PE> because it's too popular?  At least it's different from the tired

Not leave. Just join. Every time I get a new nodelist it seems to be about 50k
bigger, every week. Last time I checked, the growth rate of BBSs was about 40%
and the growth rate of users was 70%, some of these new BBSs and users will
join FIDO and eventually, Fido will be carrying so much mail that it will be
difficult to handle it all.

 PE> old argument used by the internetters that Fidonet is dying every
 PE> day and will be dead soon.

That's bullshit. If Fido is dying, how come the damn nodelist keeps getting
bigger and all the echos together carry about 25-50 meg of mail per day.

 PE> Fidonet, if it were ever to happen, 100 meg of hard disk would 
 PE> cost US$1.  But even if it stays at its current levels, it would

I'm saying that a nodelist that big will be very difficult to manage, maintain,
process and store. The current nodelist takes long enought to process and
search, so I wonder how a much bigger one will be...

Regards,
 - SoNiC

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