-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Bj”rn Felten <=-

 TK>> If someone from the real world wants to find out something about
 TK>> fidonet, what does he do? Look for an echo called fidonews? No,
 TK>> he googles for "fidonet".

 BF>    For more than two months?

 MvV> A lot has changed in Fidonet, but there is one constant factor.
 MvV> We still use a nodelist. So....  If I had been away for no matter
 MvV> how long and wanted to return and needed to find the nearest NC,
 MvV> I would google for "fidonet nodelist".

 MvV> Should not take two month...

I don't think the example under discussion was someone who was 
"returning" to Fidonet.  It was someone trying to join for the 
first time.  Such a person probably doesn't know anything about a 
Nodelist, or what it is, or how it would be useful.

Even if you did, trying to find a copy of it can be difficult, 
when even the links on fidonet.org that should lead to a nodelist 
are dead.



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