MvdV> Hmmm. Perhaps find another BBS to post from. There are
 MvdV> still plenty around. Are you familiar with the concept of
 MvdV> the Nodelist?

As far as I know, the nodelist is a list of all the members (nodes) of
Fidonet.  I have never been one, having been content to operate a point
node, thanks to the very reliable feed I get from Bob Juge, a regional hub
at 1:106/2000.

But is the nodelist accessible to nonmembers?  Can one take a look at it by
visiting some website?

 MvdV> I am not sure it is a link problem. But if you tell me what
 MvdV> region Jan is in, I could check on it.

Brevard County, Florida, USA.  The same county as the Kennedy Space Center
(or Cape Canaveral, or whatever they're calling it these days)

 MvdV> Maybe Jan is cut off. Maybe hel left for other reasons.
 MvdV> People do that sometimes. Their interests change and they
 MvdV> just disappear. Where is Leslie Rohrer? All I know is that
 MvdV> someday he just disapeared.

People loose interest.  If they loose their connection, but not their
interest, they find a way back.  Remember when we cajoled Jeff Sterling
back?  He had lost interest but came back anyway.  His return was brief. 
He lost interest.  I'll have been here for 10 years next April (April 1994
was when I bought my first modem, 1400 baud, slipped it into my At&T PC
6300, and starting visiting the boards.  Within a few weeks I had a point,
changed it a few weeks later to one that was more reliable, and then one
last time a few months after that.

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