Subj : Re: ET phone home
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Nick Andre
Date : Tue Jan 10 2017 04:34 pm

On 09 Jan 17  08:20:14, Nicholas Boel said the following to Nick Andre:

NB>  NB>> I haven't added many new echos to my system (maybe besides
NB>  NB>> Fidonet's UTF-8 echo) in quite some time. In any case, I've
NB>  NB>> actually been pondering removin bunch, rather than adding more. :)
NB> 
NB>  NA> I know! How many Linux echoes do we really need?
NB> 
NB> Well, one for every friggin distribution out there, DUH! :)

You mean for every distribution, every application, every possible 
configuration scenario... akin to the comp hiarchy on Usenet.

NB> RA support echos and OS2 echos too. Along with the various technical areas 
NB> software is not even being used anymore (TUB and TORNADO come to mind right
NB> off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are plenty others) Seriously,
NB> there's like 5+ of each of them and they're lucky to get one post a month
NB> besides the moderator's robot postings. Yet nobody has any kind of urge
NB> whatsoever to knock these down and combine them into one message base that
NB> could possibly get 2 posts per month instead of that lonely one.

Well because you know that would just be the kiss of death of Fido, if any
echoes started vanishing like that...

NB> At one point it must have just became a chest pounding thing to show how ma
NB> echos you moderated and how many you have collected over the years, and it
NB> doesn't seem like anyone ever wanted to give up that feeling. Now we have a
NB> wasteland of a bunch of dead echos and consolidation is definitely not
NB> something people want to come to terms with until /maybe/ the day one reali
NB> the only one seeing the robot postings are themselves. Even then there's a
NB> good chance it won't be realized.

Agreed totally... 

Nick

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