Subj : Limiting bot posts?
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : Satchmo
Date : Mon Aug 05 2024 16:12:58


 Me> I actually know what you mean about replies and discussion would be
 Me> lost amongst the automated posts, when I made that base the sole
 Me> intention of it was to provide news about tech automatically to anyone
 Me> wanting to read it, and discussions coming from a post would be
 Me> seen/read the same as any other post in other bases.

I forget the fidonet terminolgy, (it's been a long day) but isn't there still a 































































































































way to reply/quote in a differnet echo?

So the great articles still keep coming in, but discussions around them take 
place in another echo?
We don't really see that kinda thing active anymore but it used to work well on 































































































































some "announement" echos that I used to frequent.

 Me> The frequency of posts is based on the RSS feeds that are being
 Me> scraped, so if there isn't much tech news one day, then posts would be
 Me> fewer.

 Me> I'll have a think about ways to make it less aggressive or frequent, I
 Me> could poll the RSS feeds less frequently but it'd still pull the same
 Me> amount of news, just would mean there would be more unread messages
 Me> each time it polls.

We appreciate you!

Louis


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