Subj : fr-CA
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Mon Jan 09 2023 20:33:03

06 Jan 2023 01:24, you wrote to me:

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

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

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

 WD> Among these countries there was something going-on called
 WD> "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.

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

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

Carlos

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