JC> I know the echo itself originates in Europe;  I'll check with few
 JC> people about it...

Abrupt drop of movement can really indicate a broken link...

Barry had these links in last map I've from his system:

FIDOSOFT.HUSKY         1:120/544 18/500 2:24/903 2437/224.246 53/558
                       3:633/260 640/954

I see that Rafael (2:341/14) have 231 msgs in msgbase for this area,
since jun/2003, maybe can be used to verify which nodes disappeared.
Your msgs are there:

04-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Tommi Koivula        Re: .tics from HT
04-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     andrew clarke        Re: smapi jam
04-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Gerrit Kuehn         Re: fidoconf brok
04-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Benny Pedersen       Re: fidoconf
05-01-04    Tommi Koivula        Dmitry Sergienko     .tics from HTick
05-01-04    Gerrit Kuehn         Dmitry Sergienko     fidoconf broken ?
05-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Tommi Koivula        Re: .tics from HT
05-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Gerrit Kuehn         Re: fidoconf brok
06-01-04    Andreas Mayer        All                  HTick and Destina
06-01-04    Tommi Koivula        Dmitry Sergienko     .tics from HTick
06-01-04    Tommi Koivula        Dmitry Sergienko     .tics from HTick
06-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Andreas Mayer        Re: HTick and Des
07-01-04    Andreas Mayer        Dmitry Sergienko     HTick and Destina
07-01-04    Jame Clay            Dmitry Sergienko     HTick Perl Hooks
06-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Tommi Koivula        Re: .tics from HT
06-01-04    Gerrit Kuehn         Dmitry Sergienko     fidoconf broken ?
06-01-04    Benny Pedersen       Tommi Koivula        .tics from HTick
07-01-04    Bo Simonsen          David Drummond       HTICK
14-01-04    Alex Woick           All                  hpt expanding var
18-01-04    Benny Pedersen       Dmitry Sergienko     Re: hpt expanding
14-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Alex Woick           Re: hpt expanding
15-01-04    Alex Woick           Dmitry Sergienko     hpt expanding var
15-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Alex Woick           Re: hpt expanding
18-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Benny Pedersen       Re: hpt expanding
19-01-04    David Drummond       Bo Simonsen          HTICK
19-01-04    Bo Simonsen          David Drummond       HTICK
19-01-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Jame Clay            Re: HTick Perl Ho
26-01-04    Stefan Tell          All                  Husky & NetBSD
26-01-04    Jame Clay            Dmitry Sergienko     HTick Perl Hooks
01-02-04    Joerg Stadelhoff     All                  Tool like ChangeF
01-02-04    Jame Clay            Joerg Stadelhoff     Tool like ChangeF
01-02-04    Jame Clay            All                  hpt qupd ??
03-02-04    Joerg Stadelhoff     Jame Clay            Tool like ChangeF
03-02-04    Jame Clay            Joerg Stadelhoff     Tool like ChangeF
04-02-04    Dmitry Sergienko     Jame Clay            Re: hpt qupd ??
08-02-04    Jame Clay            Dmitry Sergienko     Re: hpt qupd ??
12-02-04    Jame Clay            All                  hptlogstat.pl lic

The top senders and origins I see in the qwk packet are:

Benny Pedersen, ftp://junc.org/ binkd 0.9.6 xpoint{at}junc.org (2:237/53)
Bo Simonsen, The Night Express - Roennede, Dk (2:236/100)
Dmitry Sergienko, trooper{at}email.dp.ua * ICQ: 38304000 (2:464/910.1)
Joe Delahaye, The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)
Sean Rima, TCOB1 a way of life (2:263/950)

If you want I can try a rescan for this set of msgs and create a
path-tree with RBTStat.

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