FR> The numbers
 FR> Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

 FR> Maybe time for some realism. The nodelist may be what it is but
 FR> numbers don't lie.

 FR> There were days when Fidonet eclipsed around 36.000 nodes in the
 FR>  mid-1990-ies but that is like 25 years ago.

 FR> These are today's numbers, 915 individual sysop-names. There may
 FR> be some variation depending on how one looks at the nodelist but
 FR> all administrative overhead, Down, Hold and vanity-numbers were
 FR> removed and then that is the meager result.

 FR>   ZONE-1   302  33,01%
 FR>   ZONE-2   571  62,40%
 FR>   ZONE-3    24   2,26%
 FR>   ZONE-4    18   1,97%


Thanks for those numbers, Ward.  Very interesting how much things 
have changed.

Not sure what the comment on "realism" means...  I think we all 
know that Fidonet is not what it was 25 years ago.

At least it's still around, right?



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