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   Hello Jay,   
      
   On Friday April 02 2021 09:16, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV>> We have an new one:   
      
    MvdV>> Hello Vasily, welcome to the Fidonet IPv6 club!   
      
    JH> Only 5 more to go to 100!   
      
   If only it were that simple...   
      
   Not only do we get new ones, we also loose old ones. As I wrote in my yearly   
   Fidonews article in Fidonews 38:01:   
      
   ==- quote ===   
      
   When we look at the past decade we see that IPv6 in Fidonet grew   
   from zero to almost a hundred . Nearly 10% of the listed Fido nodes.   
   The growth went from exponential in the first five years to almost   
   lineair since 2015. Until the end of 2015, the number almost doubled   
   every year. In 2016 we had a mere net increase of 12 nodes. I say   
   "net" because in 2016, not only did we see new IPv6 nodes, we also   
   saw nodes disappear from the list. Some stopped supporting IPv6, some   
   left Fidonet altogether. This trend continued in 2017-2020. A net   
   increase of 13 nodes in 2017, 14 in 2018, 8 in 2019 and 7 in 2020.   
      
   Statistics on small numbers is always tricky, but we can not deny   
   the impression that sinds two years the rate of net increase appears   
   to be dropping. Had the lineair growth that started in 2015   
   continued, we would have reached 100 last year. As it is it will take   
   another year and if the rate of increase drops further it may take   
   even longer. Or forever...   
      
   === end quote ===   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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