*** Answering a msg posted in area _Carbon.Mail (Carbon.Mail).   
      
   Hi Michiel!   
      
   Sunday June 03 2018 09:48, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV>>>>>  79  1:153/757    Alan Ianson            Native  TELUS   
      
    SM>>>> The next will be jubilee. ;)   
      
    WvV>>> No, 80 isn't a very special number. The last jubilee was number   
    WvV>>> 64, and the next one will be 128. ;)   
      
    SM>> Yes. 256 512 1024 ;) It will be soon too.   
      
    MvdV> I think 1024 is a bridge too far.   
      
   Not exectly...   
      
    MvdV>  The present rate is 15 nodes/year.   
      
   Is no acceleration?   
      
    MvdV>  If that rate continues rate we will reach that "jubilee" in 2080.   
    MvdV> It is unlikely that Fidonet will still have 1024 members by then...   
      
   I guess avalanche in IPv6 progress.   
      
    MvdV> 128 is doable. At the present rate we will reach that around 2022.   
    MvdV> But I can't wait hat long. So lets forget about powers of two for   
    MvdV> the moment and go back to decimal.   
      
   Ok. Let it be. ;)   
      
    MvdV> I move that we celibrate at 100. A fair chance we will all live to   
    MvdV> see that! ;-)   
      
   It's a pity, but some time we all will die. Nobady will livew forever, excep   
   Fido. ;)   
      
   Have a nice night.   
             Stas Mishchenkov.   
      
   --- NudeGrand   
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