Subj : Re: Most recent elisting of this area
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 19:02:13

Hi August,

On 2021-01-25 09:51:26, you wrote to me:

 >> I don't know. Maybe some should become read-only, to keep its history
 >> as an archive. And no one should be allowed to post in it. But that is
 >> impossible with to realise...

 AA> Yes.. that would be hard to get a fidonet-wide consensus to do that.

It's impossible. Best would be if it was a technical feature. But since it isn't. And it won't happen that every used piece of software in fidonet will be updated to support it.

 AA> However, having some echos revitalized by showing up could be a good
 AA> thing.

I think there's plenty of areas already. More isn't necessarily better. Everybody has limited time to spend in fido. So concentrating this in a few areas is better then spreading it out over more and more... If you do that enough everyone has his own favourite area, and everybody is talking to himself. ;)

 AA> What's lacking is attracting a userbase to maintain the chat momentum.
 AA> Where *is* everybody?

I think we've passed that station, fidonet is slowely dying... :-(

 AA> I told a cousin of mine that I would be reducing my FB usage next to
 AA> zero. And if she wanted to reach me then she could try
 AA> https://t.me/aabolins ..and go from there.  She's still sticking with
 AA> FB; based on all the selfie's and automatic live posting of the most
 AA> recent restaurant or shopping destination, she's not much of a
 AA> conversationalist anyway.

;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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