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from: ANDREW CLARKE
date: 2018-11-10 00:52:00
subject: FTS-1 and FTS-4

10 Nov 18 00:21, I wrote to all:

 ac> 4. We prioritise documenting the required (non-optional) parts of a
 ac> compatible node, especially Internet nodes, as they are the obvious
 ac> majority of FidoNet in 2018.

As an aside, I'm curious when exactly Internet nodes took over as the majority
of FidoNet.

If I had to guess it would be some time around 2005, but it's a complete guess.

From old nodelists it should be possible to pinpoint when it happened.

I suppose to be thorough, you'd want separate results of the number of dialup
nodes versus both Internet-only and hybrid Internet/dialup nodes.

Someone might have done all of this already?

I only have nodelists going back to 2011. I'll try to hunt down some older
ones. Suggestions welcome.

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