SH> Robert Bull (2:250/501.4) wrote to MICHEL SAMSON at 16:59 on
 SH> 26 Oct 2003:

 RB>> I've never been in any "political" echoes  ;-) 
Traffic is now so
 RB>> low on  some others that off-topic drift seems more tolerated.

 SH> Traffic has dropped off so precipitously  in most of the
 SH> echoes I frequent -- which include some of the 'political
 SH> echoes' -- that I wonder where everyone has gone.  And this
 SH> happened in less than five weeks.

you might be seeing repercussions as the Z1B appears to be fragmenting due
to one or two of its members actions of late... i'm just catching up and
cannot speak to anything more than that...

)\/(ark