*** Quoting Ilya Kuznetsoff from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 AP>> In USA there are a lot of nodes?

 CS> Thre used to be, but the Internet drew a lot of them away.

IK>   Pity. We has many internetfido gates (like fido-online.com)
IK> in russian fido and  ip-nodes,  so  we  doesn't   loose   users.
IK> Fido-style means rules.

Yes, we too have those in Zone1.  Many of them.  In fact, most seem dual IP
and ¨POTS so it's not a problem finding a fast feed for echos.
                                       xxcarol

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