Subj : Re: echos - a morbid curiosity
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Tue Dec 15 2020 13:23:08

On 15 Dec 2020, August Abolins said the following...
 
 AA> On 11/11/2020 10:30 AM, between "Wilfred van Velzen - Charles Pierson":
 AA> 
 AA> >  WV>> This is the first message I ever got in this area, didn't even
 AA> >  WV>> know I was connected to it. ;-) What made you post in this area
 AA> >  WV>> instead of 'ASTRONOMY' ?
 AA> >
 AA> >  CP> Honestly, morbid curiosity.  I like seeing which areas will actuall
 AA> >  CP> 
 AA> a
 AA> >  CP> reply.
 AA> >
 AA> > I'm going to connect it on my other links that have it available.
 AA> > Maybe that will release some isolated "sub nets" of the area. ;-)
 AA> 
 AA> But it is not getting attention. It's not in Janice's echolist table in
 AA> the Fidogazette.

There are many, many echos that aren't listed. That doesn't mean they aren'tt
connected though.
 AA> This is probably one of the reasons why new people are not finding
 AA> Fidonet echos.

Echos are limited by whatever the Sysop carries. I've read discussions about
it where some sysops have said they only carry those areas which interest
them. That's fair, it's their system after all. So it becomes a crap shoot
whether or not a particular Echo is on a particular system.
 AA> It would be nice if there was a more consolidated (and real-time) way to 
 AA> announce active/live echos.
 AA> 

You aren't going to get real-time with FTN Technology. The best you'lll get
is those systems that have bots or whatever that post stats from their
systems.

But I'm sure there are many "abandoned" echos such as this one that are stilk
on various systems. you have to muddle through and find them, and see which
ones still are linked to multiple systems, and if you want, you can get them
relisted as "official" echos on the ELIST.

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