Subj : Limiting bot posts?
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jul 25 2024 17:29:18


I was thinking it might be a good idea to reduce the number of automated 
postings here?

Looking at my BBS with a little over a year of messages:

 Sub # Name                                         # Posts Latest date & time
     1 BBS Adverts                                     1476 2024-07-25 14:59:36
     2 Docker Chat                                       60 2024-06-11 19:33:25
     3 General BBS Chat                                  93 2024-04-15 13:23:04
     4 General Chat                                     354 2024-07-22 16:49:22
*    5 Tech Discussions                                8466 2024-07-25 16:15:05
     6 General Science News                            1779 2024-07-25 11:17:33
     7 Linux                                            769 2024-07-25 09:30:05
     8 Mac OS X                                          14 2024-05-20 06:35:51
     9 MBSE BBS Chat                                      6 2024-05-25 17:03:46
    10 Mystic BBS Chat                                   68 2024-06-10 17:36:11
    11 Mystic BBS Development                             9 2024-07-25 15:55:18
    12 Python General Chat                                9 2024-07-24 15:38:22
    13 Raspberry Pi                                      57 2024-07-06 17:16:58
    14 roBOT output                                    1212 2024-06-08 06:31:29
    15 Suggestions Box                                    0 1969-12-31 16:00:00
    16 Synchronet BBS Chat                               31 2023-10-23 19:10:01
    17 Test Echo                                        308 2024-07-06 07:06:01


It's easy to see which echoes have automated postings of web news articles and 
which ones don't. It makes it hard, IMO, to sort out the conversations from the 









































































































































automated posts (that lead you off of the echoes and less likely to reply)

Tech Discussions is an echo where I'd like to see some conversations going on, 
but any human replies would be drowned out by the automated postings.

Just a thought...

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