Editorial

Greetings,

So much has been written about how much/many Nodes FidoNet is loosing every week, that I have pleasure showing you a few messages from previous posted Nodelist stats.

I'm not going to present you with any meaningfull or otherwise bull here as the figures below, speak for themselves. Please, regardless whether the figures are correct or not is not the point, what is the point, it presents some form of demise of FidoNet in a manner, which is frighting. A hobby in which I and many of you, have spent many hours in, not to speak of the amount of money we invested in it.

From a message: 23 April 1996.

Nodelist Robot

      | Nl-4 | Nodelist-3  | Nodelist-2  | Nodelist-1  |  Current Nl |
------+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
Zone-1| 14734| 14535   -199| 14572     37| 14457   -115| 14340   -117|
Zone-2| 16478| 16567     89| 16576      9| 16629     53| 16599    -30|
Zone-3|  1154|  1155      1|  1152     -3|  1146     -6|  1124    -22|
Zone-4|   584|   584      0|   584      0|   584      0|   584      0|
Zone-5|   120|   120      0|   120      0|   120      0|   117     -3|
Zone-6|   880|  1226    346|  1229      3|  1228     -1|  1228      0|
------+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
Total | 33950| 34187    237| 34233     46| 34164    -69| 33992   -172|
------+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
      | Nl-4 | Nodelist-3  | Nodelist-2  | Nodelist-1  |  Current Nl |
      +------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+

From a message: 3 January 1997.

Nodelist Robot

|Zone|Nl-341|Nodelist-348|Nodelist-355|Nodelist-362|Nodelist-003|%%|
+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
|  1 | 10931|10737  -194 |10564  -173 |10452  -112 |10370   -82 |36|
|  2 | 16185|16150   -35 |16127   -23 |16104   -23 |16056   -48 |55|
|  3 |   882|  882     0 |  878    -4 |  876    -2 |  869    -7 | 3|
|  4 |   578|  572    -6 |  413  -159 |  556   143 |  552    -4 | 2|
|  5 |    94|   94     0 |   93    -1 |   93     0 |   93     0 | 0|
|  6 |  1006| 1003    -3 | 1003     0 | 1075    72 | 1073    -2 | 4|
+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
     | 29676|29438  -238 |29078  -360 |29156    78 |29013  -143 |
     +------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

From a message: 3 January 1998

Nodelist Robot

!Zone/Jul!Ndl-339!Nodel.-346!Nodel.-353!Nodel.-360!Nodel.-002!%%!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!  1/360 !  6338 ! 6338    0! 6225 -113! 6199  -26! 6199    0!27!
!  2/002 ! 14627 !14654   27!14605  -49!14523  -82!14538   15!63!
!  3/360 !   591 !  591    0!  592    1!  580  -12!  580    0! 3!
!  4/353 !   436 !  434   -2!  434    0!  435    1!  435    0! 2!
!  5/353 !    92 !   92    0!   92    0!   91   -1!   91    0! 0!
!  6/318 !  1091 ! 1091    0! 1091    0! 1091    0! 1091    0! 5!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
         ! 23175 !23200   25!23039 -161!22919 -120!22934   15!
         +-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+

From a message: 10 January 1999

Nodelist Stats

+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!Zone/Jul!Ndl-345!Nodel.-352!Nodel.-359!Nodel.-001!Nodel.-008!%%!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!  1/008 !  3714 ! 3675  -39! 3660  -15! 3613  -47! 3593  -20!20!
!  2/008 ! 13073 !13127   54!13071  -56!13089   18!12994  -95!72!
!  3/008 !   345 !  344   -1!  338   -6!  338    0!  311  -27! 2!
!  4/008 !   267 !  267    0!  267    0!  267    0!  267    0! 1!
!  5/008 !    60 !   60    0!   60    0!   60    0!   59   -1! 0!
!  6/001 !   912 !  912    0!  912    0!  906   -6!  906    0! 5!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
         ! 18371 !18385   14!18308  -77!18273  -35!18130 -143!
         +-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+

As can be seen, FidoNet is loosing Nodes at a rate of some 4000 per annum. At this rate, we have some 4 years to go, before it's history. A very sad state of affairs.

Not so happy reading,