Subj : BBS Discussion
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Sun Jun 18 2017 00:46:24

on 06/17/17, Poindexter Fortran said...
 
 PF> I'd love to see a Fidonet culling - get rid of any echoes that haven't
 PF> had postings in 3 years, and send a ping out to every board in the
 PF> nodelist. Don't respond to three pings? Take them out of the nodelist.

You'd think that would be standard practice. I mean, to even get on the
nodelist you had to have your system configured and ready to poll and you
weren't getting in until it was done. I don't know if it's still that way,
but it should be.

Echomail shouldn't be any different... but, again, control-freaks.

 PF> I'd hope that a Fidonet nodelist and echolist that accurately
 PF> reflected active nodes and message areas would feel like a different
 PF> place.

It wouldn't. The problem is the people who are in control. They're the ones
that make it miserable.

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