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to: ANDREW CLARKE
from: ALEXEY VISSARIONOV
date: 2018-11-11 02:41:00
subject: FTS-1 and FTS-4

Good ${greeting_time}, andrew!

10 Nov 2018 01:03:54, you wrote to All:

 ac> As an aside, I'm curious when exactly Internet nodes took over as the
 ac> majority of FidoNet.
 ac> From old nodelists it should be possible to pinpoint when it happened.
 ac> I suppose to be thorough, you'd want separate results of the number of
 ac> dialup nodes versus both Internet-only and hybrid Internet/dialup
 ac> nodes.

/bin/grep will help you with that.

 ac> Someone might have done all of this already?

Unlikely.

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

I have a really good archive of nodelists starting from 1990ies.
Possibly, I'd create a git repository from it...


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