Subj : echos - a morbid curiosity
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 03:52:40

On 12/15/2020 2:00 PM, between "Wilfred van Velzen - Charles Pierson":


>  Wv>> Why do we need this area anyway? Since there already is ASTRONOMY,
>  Wv>> which at least had a bit of traffic over the years.
>
>  CP> Maybe we don't. It could be that these two echos handled different in times
>  CP> gone by. Maybe one was strictly announcements and the other had
>  CP> discussions.
>
> Could be. Although I think there is an other kind of distinction.
> ASTRONOMY being more the scientific area, and ASTRONET sounds more
> non scientific...

To me ASTRONET sounds more encompassing - as in "NETting" in.  So, it could be anything with ASTR/O as a prefix: astral projections, astrolabs, astrodomes, astrophysics, etc..

>  CP> The problem is that once an echo is created, it exists forever, unless
>  CP> somehow every system that carries it deletes it.
>
> Indeed. And deleting everywhere never happens. It takes a very long
> time for dead or abondoned echos to disappear, and some never did.
> Some even get some live back in them at one point, like this one. ;)

Perhaps sysops can be encouraged to take stock of their echos at least once a year and drop the dead ones.  Couldn't the EC encourage that as part of standard operations?

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