-=> Quoting Joe Dzurinda to All <=-
 JD> 
 JD> Looks like the use of the Scuba Fidonet has really fallen off.  I do
 JD> see a few posts from some of the old users but there only seems to be
 JD> about 2 messages a day coming in.  Where did everyone go?
Same place I went probably:   on the Usenet.  Now that
personal Internet service is getting so cheap (mine is $8.50/month
for unlimited service), I am afraid that BBS's are suffering an exodus
of users to ISP's, with the result that FidoNet's scuba echo is
seeing a dramatic fall-off in user participation.  Rec.Scuba gets
between 100 and 300 new messages every day, so many in fact that
I had to drop out after a while.  The sheer volume of message traffic
was too time-consuming.  I am hoping that rec.scuba will split up
into different sub-groups for US/Canada, Europe, Australia, etc.
so users can filter out regional traffic from other countries
if they want.  Still, it is a shame that FidoNet may atrophy
and die, but perhaps that is one of the consequences of progress.
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