At least, it lives as far as I can tell. ;-) If Tom Jennings did indeed 'pull the plug,' I've seen no indication of it whatsoever at my end. If anything, traffic on the echos I carry is higher than normal. To answer an earlier question about hardware; my DOS-based BBS has been running very happily, since 1990, on a 386DX-40 (AMD processor, of course!) and 8 MB RAM. I use RemoteAccess 2.01 for the base BBS package, Portal of Power 0.62 for the front-end mailer, and FastEcho for the mail processor. Scott Samet's XLAXNODE handles my weekly nodelist compilation. The system has been extremely trouble-free, and has been pretty much self-maintaining since 1994. The only things I need to do with it are to pick up my mail every week and check for new users every so often. As long as I continue to see a NODEDIFF each week, and as long as I continue to pay dues to my local group for echo traffic, I will assume that FidoNet still lives. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272) (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net) http://www.wizards.net/technoid "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."