Subj : Most recent elisting of this area
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Tue Jan 26 2021 08:48:55

 AA>  WvV> I think there's plenty of areas already. More isn't
 AA>  WvV> necessarily better.
 AA> 
 AA> True. It's a matter of promoting what is already configured and  
 AA> ready to rock'n'roll.

And there is the rub.  Any "promotion" of BBSes outside of BBSes is usuallt
limited to blogs or other online nostalgia type articles. Even those1 "12
BBSes you should check out Today" type articles are basically Nostalgia tyoe
pieces.

 AA>  WvV> Everybody has limited time to spend in fido. So
 AA>  WvV> concentrating this in a few areas is better then spreading
 AA>  WvV> it out over more and more... If you do that enough
 AA>  WvV> everyone has his own favourite area, and everybody is
 AA>  WvV> talking to himself. ;)

Maurice doesn't seem to mind. ;-)

 AA> What this hobby needs are sysops who are either young people who  
 AA> don't have adulting responsibilities or seniors who still have  
 AA> lucid minds.

I've seen 1 mention lately of someone helping their teenage son set-up a BBS.
As far as Seniors with lucid minds, there are several of us around. That's
not the problem. The problem is open minds. Also finding ways to innovate
BBSes without fundementally changing what BBSes are.

 AA> Wrt to spreading out the conversations over echos, that would be  
 AA> necessary as people delve into specific topics.  But generic  
 AA> echos (coffee_klatsch, chat, asian_link) are perfect entry  
 AA> points for conversation.  Then, as people get familiar with  
 AA> their BBS or Boss, they can learn about echos that could cater  
 AA> to more specific topics.
 AA> 

OK, Here is my question on this. Let's say we somehow get an influx of new
users, say via TELEGRAM, since that is probably the easiest introduction to
FTN style echomail and BBS messages to new people. 

Regardless if our thoughts on the matter as of yet people in the Fido
community don't see Telegram as a  BBS in the manner that it is being used
here, so you are limited in what echoes you can carry.

If a topic of discussion get's moved to an area that isn't connected to
Telegram for whatever reason, how do we keep the new Telegram users involved?

 AA>  AA>> What's lacking is attracting a userbase to maintain the
 AA>  AA>> chat momentum. Where *is* everybody?
 AA> 
 AA>  WvV> I think we've passed that station, fidonet is slowely
 AA>  WvV> dying... :-(
 AA> 
 AA> Promotion!  Maybe we need to offer hats with MEGA (make echomail  
 AA> great again)  LOL

Maybe Fidonet is dying. BBS networks have come and gone over the years.

It would be upsetting to me, because Fidonet was the first place I started
having regular conversations with people from around the world. I played in
an RPG over echomail with people from all over.

But if Fidonet dies, it's Fidonet's fault. It appears to me that at least
what I saw as a big part of what made Fidonet special is not embracedby many
people any more.

 AA> But I had a few other people (ex echomail users) poised to join  
 AA> us in the generic chat echos. They were under the assumption  
 AA> that echomail died in 2000 when dial-up died.  Again.. this is  
 AA> all due to unawareness of the current state of things and the  
 AA> modern internet-way to rejoin echomail.

"Had?" as in no longer interested?  What happened?

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