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Sadly, from Region 19
Taken from a message by Steve Quarrella
1:393/9005

Net 380 is gone. I get some disconnects there, one FAX machine, and a BBS without a mailer. I've got a note out to the sysop of that BBS, but I admit that I'm not optimistic.

Net 147 may be gone. The NC has a note on his web site that his system is dead. One other system has a FAX machine online, another is definitely gone, and another is RNA (Ring No Answer).

"Egorkin's "funeral"
From : Max Krasnikov
2:5045/57.18
(Tuesday, 28 August 2001)
Minor editing by Frank Vest

Vladivostok. Summer. It's a time, when all the people strive to go as far as possible to islands, sea, China, Japan... Due to this tendency a sharp comedown in the trafic is feeling, which resolves itself into 40Kb per day ... e.g. just nothing... However, people don't diverge the traditions, so 23-th August, by plan, all got around the square near the sea front (Naberezhnaja) by the "elephants" to celebrate "Egorkin's "funeral"", to catch those who was not able to be hunt down by netmail, to solve small net problems, and just to have a bock, meet in real those who converse by fido... Generally it could be named most likely fidotap rather then sysopp...

A little bit hystory: 23-th August is a kind of significant date for us, 4-5 years ago, in the time of modems at 2400, a man with the name Egor Nikolaev (2:5045/9) worked as administrator at a big Vladivostok' restaurant-hotel. He had a node with address 2:5045/9. He occupied 3 phone lines for the node, and he was a big distributing node in the net. He had a BBS named Music Drain, which gathered people from all over the Vladivostok in the quiet evenings and nights. There people were picking up each other, rubbing shoulders with each other, making arrangements... at that time such BBS was a basic source of information and gossip for computer-modem oriented people, Internet was not yet online, even fido was not that much common as it's now. So one fine day a paper from the Phone Central came to the management of the restaurant. So to say, it was needed to register the units on the phone line, otherwise - amercement and all in the same vein... the management, of course, asked Egor to clear away all the modems from the lines... In fact, it came to close not only the node, but the BBS also, which was for 3 years a retreat for a lot of fidos and just users... This was just a killing decision for him, he had to kill his child with his own hands... And the last days of the stantion's life he gathered all to the funeral of Music Drain BBS, it was 23-th August ... Since that time year in year out 23-th August is the Commemoration Day of Music Drain BBS... Everything begins as usually by the "elephants" and ends in the underground club BSB...