> How do Internet newsgroups compare with FidoNet
 > echoes?  In an echo, every bbs that carries it gets
 > the same number of messages.
Not exactly true.  Most bbs'es have some sort of limitation on the amount of 
messages they will hold. (Especially if those systems use a Hudson Message 
Base).  It's up to the sysop to decide how many or how few messages the area 
will contain - usually on a daily and/or weekly basis, and the areas usually 
get a maintenance done on them  once a week, most being done in a nightly 
event (or those that I've been privy
to as a sysop, co-sysop and user.
For example, on our particular system, the echoes Jeff and I moderate are set 
high numerically, so we have references to fall back on  if a problem occurs. 
 Some of the less trafficked areas get set at lower numeric levels. I know I 
sure don't want to respond to something that was posted several months ago if 
the echo only gets around 10-20 messages a week and the echo's numeric level 
is set at 1000. (making it more conducive for the echo's numeric level to be 
around 200 instead).
But then there are those areas that get 200 or more messages a day, something 
that would mean a brand new set of messages would come in everyday if the 
echo and people would have to keep up daily with their mail deliveries just 
to have an idea what was going on.
 > Do newsgroups work the same way, or does it depend on the
 > news server you access?  *adh*
I've not really dealt with enough newsgroups to give you a good answer on 
this one. Everyone I've gotten usually has a limitation - or possibly it's a 
limit that is imposed by my ISP.
Nancy
--- FMail 1.02
---------------