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    From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to All on Tue Jan 3 21:53:07 2023
    Bonsoir,

    Do/did you have French-speaking echos in Fidonet-Canada?

    Carlos

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Carlos Navarro on Tue Jan 3 15:44:20 2023
    Hello Carlos,

    Do/did you have French-speaking echos in Fidonet-Canada?

    There was french echo at one time but it wasn't all that busy.

    There aren't enough nodes anymore to support something like that.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to ALAN IANSON on Wed Jan 4 16:24:00 2023
    Do/did you have French-speaking echos in Fidonet-Canada?

    There was french echo at one time but it wasn't all that busy.

    There aren't enough nodes anymore to support something like that.

    I am not certain we have many/any nodes in French speaking parts of Canada or France or any other French part of the world. :(

    Mike

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Carlos Navarro on Fri Jan 6 01:24:19 2023
    Carlos,

    Do/did you have French-speaking echos in Fidonet-Canada?

    To my knowledge, as far as french-language echoes, there was a bunch with french-speaking Belgium, french-speaking Switzerland and french-speaking Canada.

    Among these countries there was something going-on called "Franco-media". I don't know what it was about. France never was big in Fidonet because people were playing with their Minitel. French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland were only having a handful of nodes each, maybe 1 in Luxembourg. I would guess Franco Media collapsed because there was not a single feed of whatever.
    Any remaining nodes in Canada? I honestly doubt it.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Mike Powell on Sun Jan 8 03:17:50 2023
    There aren't enough nodes anymore to support something like that.

    I am not certain we have many/any nodes in French speaking parts of Canada or France or any other French part of the world. :(

    Yep, times have changed.

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 9 20:18:11 2023
    03 Jan 2023 15:44, you wrote to me:

    Do/did you have French-speaking echos in Fidonet-Canada?

    There was french echo at one time but it wasn't all that busy.

    Do you mean FRANCAIS? Or did you have Canadian echos?

    There aren't enough nodes anymore to support something like that.

    Ok, just curious.

    Carlos

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to Ward Dossche on Mon Jan 9 20:33:03 2023
    06 Jan 2023 01:24, you wrote to me:

    Do/did you have French-speaking echos in Fidonet-Canada?

    To my knowledge, as far as french-language echoes, there was a bunch
    with french-speaking Belgium, french-speaking Switzerland and french-speaking Canada.

    Interesting. I guess that those echos no longer exist...

    Among these countries there was something going-on called
    "Franco-media". I don't know what it was about.

    I did a quick search on google and it seems that FrancoMedia was a French-speaking FTN othernet that used zone 101.

    France never was big in Fidonet because people were playing with their Minitel.

    Yes, I knew about that. I suppose they didn't do much BBSing in general...

    Carlos

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Carlos Navarro on Mon Jan 9 11:36:58 2023
    Hello Carlos,

    There was french echo at one time but it wasn't all that busy.

    Do you mean FRANCAIS? Or did you have Canadian echos?

    I don't see any french speaking echoes currently. I forget now but I think the area tag was FRANCAIS but I don't know where it oeiginated.

    There aren't enough nodes anymore to support something like that.

    Ok, just curious.

    I wouldn't be able to participate in a french (or any other language for that matter) area but if folks wanted to put it together I would add the area here and make it available to others who are interested.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 9 21:23:50 2023
    Do you mean FRANCAIS? Or did you have Canadian echos?

    I don't see any french speaking echoes currently. I forget now but I
    think the area tag was FRANCAIS but I don't know where it oeiginated.

    FRANCAIS existed since long ago. It was still available on Janis' system.
    I've rescanned it from one of my links. It seems it was quite dead (at least this century), and last message is from 2015.

    BTW there was also another French echo, FRANCENET, that I've found in old areafix messages from the late 90s. (No idea if it had traffic.)

    I wouldn't be able to participate in a french (or any other language
    for that matter) area but if folks wanted to put it together I would
    add the area here and make it available to others who are interested.

    I wouldn't be able either O:-) I don't know French.
    I was just curious.

    Carlos

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