*** Quoting Marina Nikulina from a message to Bo Simonsen ***


 BS> I live in Denmark, and then Fidonet were "hot" here, there was some
 BS> woman,
 BS> but there were still 90% men. ;-)

MN> that's interesting, women usually use internet or phone,right?that's t
MN> reason i guess.BTW how old are you?


Marina, an interesting bit of trivia, but only in the USA did 'female
sysops' ¨ever become 'common' and at that it was 25% at best.  In the early
days of ¨Fidonet, most of the women used handles (nicknames) that didnt
show they were ¨female.  Mostly we did that because we were tired of being
asked about being ¨female and being into BBSing (grin).

I can't tell ya how many times someone told me to 'ask my husband to fix
¨(insert some BBS feature)'.  They were merely unaware that my husband is
not a ¨BBS type of person and has never even logged on in the past 16
years!  He's ¨handy though with helping swap out parts of the BBS machine
as they wear down.

                                       xxcarol

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