Subj : Re: NET 1 tidy-up
To   : Avon
From : apam
Date : Sat Sep 17 2022 03:58 pm

 > Not totally but I'm thinking merge a number of topics down to far less
 > echos. There's about 8 echos off the top of my head that could go this
 > way or just be pulled.

Why?

I'm pretty sure I'm subscribed to all the echos on fsxnet and every
single one of them has messages in them, some not many, but they're
actual messages.

- and I spun this board up relativly recently (in the last few months),
so it's not like there's been 8 messages since inception in one echo.

If people don't want to see echos with few messages, they can unlink from
them.

When fsxnet started, it had one echo, fsx_gen (I'm sure you remember, but
others might not) and there was an issue where new people often thought
fsxnet was technical related and non technical posts weren't welcome.

By having a gardening echo, people can be sure gardening chat is welcome,
and while most of the time they might be out in the sunshine not posting
messages, it's there if they want to. If gardening was relegated to
general, it may lead to people thinking well gardening chat isn't really
wanted - even though general covers it.

Also, keep in mind, that pruning echos means everyone has to update their
systems (even if it's just setting those areas as readonly or archived)
though adding echos is much easier, because you can ignore them and link
them when you like.

What about having some notice in the info packet instead, like General
(High Traffic) Gardening (Low Traffic)

Cryptography (Very Low Traffic)

People can then decide and prune themselves.

As for getting rid of Talisman / Enigma echos, or rolling them into
general BBS support - I'm not a fan of that, because I don't want to wade
through a bunch of other bbs support questions, and then miss one and
have people think I don't care. Plus Bryan and I are here. It also seems
to me, that they are obvious echos for people to not link to - someone
running Renegade might not care what happens in Talisman echo.

Anyway, that's my 2c.

Andrew


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