On Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:14:00 N, "H.J. Woltring" <Woltring@HNYKUN53> wrote:
>
>If if have been properly informed through the grapevine, there is an
>increasing tendency to phase out BITNET (and its affiliated nets - Netnorth,
>GULFnet, BITNETJP, EARN ?) in favour of pure Internet connectivity with its
>possibilities for TELNET, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, etc.  If this is true, ...
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Recently, it's been a close race between "new" nodes and "deleted" nodes,
according to the monthly BITNET routing-table updates:
 
Table: 9111 9201 9202 9203 9204 9205 9206 9207 9208 9209 9210  total
New:     31   29   20   32   47   26   14   16    8   18   16    257
Del:     17   40   43   32   30   30   18   14   26   17   20    287
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