Subj : New results. Much better but still not perfect.
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Dmitry Protasoff
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 07:58 pm

Hello, Michiel!

Thursday August 07 2025 14:52, you wrote to me:

 DP>> I have a plan to actualy DIAL (!) every node in the nodelist ;)
 DP>> It's not very expensive and probably many POTS nodes are dead
 DP>> anyway

 MV> In the high times of Fidonet with 30.000+ nodes and very expensive
 MV> international calls, it was definitely not doable. Even calling just
 MV> one's own region was very expensive.

 MV> Nowadays with VOIP it is a different storie.

We are living in wonderful times ;)

 DP>> (?). In Russia, we've got a really nice guy, 2:5020/8912, with a
 DP>> multiline POTS node who is dialing every node with a modem in
 DP>> Russia to check if they're still alive :)

 MV> And what are the results? How many POTS nodes still alive? How many
 MV> dead?

Since he started this process, a lot of information has been corrected in the 
nodelist.

 MV> BTW, one must be carefull with such things. The number may have
 MV> expired and be given to some old lady the you will keep out of sleep.

ZMH is in Russia during office hours. That was a big problem back in the XXth 
century.
So lady probably already feeding the pigeons on the street ;)

Best regards,
             dp.

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