Subj : Re: echos - a morbid curiosity
To : Charles Pierson
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 07:30 am
-=> Charles Pierson wrote to August Abolins <=-
CP> Fidonet is not a business, Its a platform for and by hobbiests. These
CP> hobbiests have different interests, so their BBSes are going to reflect
CP> thay.
CP> You aren't likely to convince very many sysops to change how they do
CP> things. The way you would like things to be only stands a chance of
CP> happening is for people with views like yours to start BBSes in the way
CP> you would like to see them.
I think it's safe to say that most BBS message areas break down in to
3 categories:
1. Just the message areas the sysop reads
2. The whole echolist
3. Whatever echoes have traffic in posts to the STATS echo
I'm in camp number 3; unfortunately it's counter-productive as it
promotes traffic in existing echoes instead of promoting new/quiet
echoes.
I've always wanted BBS software that would auto-add areas when
received, and prune them when dead for a set period of time.
Subscribe to everything your uplink has and let the BBS sort the
areas out...
Regarding "private" echoes that aren't advertised, I don't understand
that. I've seen some people complaining about the backbone list and
the echolist based on fear of someone exerting control or censorship
over echoes, but how else are you going to advertise them and get new
contributors?
AA> > AA> It would be nice if there was a more consolidated (and real-time) w
AA> > AA> announce active/live echos.
AA> > You aren't going to get real-time with FTN Technology. The best you'lll
AA> > is those systems that have bots or whatever that post stats from their
AA> > systems.
AA>
AA> If "bot" is the closest to real-time, that would be great!
CP> They post in the STATS echo. Which youpve already said is mind numbing
CP> for you.
CP> You have ECHO_ADS for Moderators to post about their echos.
CP> The best thing that I can come up with for a typical BBS would be the
CP> sysop could post a bulletin with a list of echos they carried and a
CP> desriptuon of them.
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