Subj : Re: echos - a morbid curiosity
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 11:07:32

Hi August,

On 2020-12-16 03:52:40, you wrote to me:

 >> Could be. Although I think there is an other kind of distinction.
 >> ASTRONOMY being more the scientific area, and ASTRONET sounds more
 >> non scientific...

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

See my previous message for what the moderators thought about it's subject...

 >> 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. ;)

 AA> Perhaps sysops can be encouraged to take stock of their echos at least once
 AA> a year and drop the dead ones.

That would be nice but unrealistic. If even cleaning up the deadwood in the nodelist by the *C's seems impossible.

 AA> Couldn't the EC encourage that as part of standard operations?

EC's? Have you noticed any activity of any EC in the last decade?

Bye, Wilfred.

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