Subj : Re: Politics echo
To   : Accession
From : boraxman
Date : Mon May 16 2022 11:13:32

 Ac>  Av> In any regard it's probably worth having a look at some of the echos
 Ac>  Av> launched almost 12 months ago (25 May 2021) and considering as The Cl
 Ac>  Av> say 'should they stay or should they go?' :)
 Ac> 
 Ac> While I don't think there's too many here, or in most of the othernets
 Ac> out there, you definitely don't need an echomail report to see which
 Ac> areas are used and which ones aren't. From what I've seen, getting too
 Ac> specific seems to draw people away from those and back into the general
 Ac> echos.
 Ac> 
 Ac> That said, you could always use Fidonet as a prime example, with
 Ac> probably well over 200 echos (depending on who you link with) and only
 Ac> maybe 20 used by actual people and not robots. ;)
 Ac> 
 Ac> Regards,
 Ac> Nick

I always thought the deal with Fidonet was that you would subscribe to the Echo's you were interested in, and each one of those was its own 'community'.

But with few users now, its the same people across the echos and going to all these different rooms to talk to the same people makes less sense.

The thing is DoveNet also has a "debate" and "entertainment" echo, so if I want to start a debate or talk about a movie, do I go to DoveNet or fsxNet or FidoNet?

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