Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : Khronos
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Apr 20 2023 06:43 am

-=> Khronos wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Kh> I am trying to get hooked up to fidonet and when I do I will pull down
 Kh> all echos I have access to and read and post to those that interest me.

When I first started pulling down echoes via the 'net, it was an
eye-opener.

 Kh> Based on today's network bandwidth there isn't any reason why most
 Kh> systems shouldn't have the entire message feed. File areas this might
 Kh> be a different matter as I do not know enough how file distribution is
 Kh> done over ftn.

I try to skip the empty areas, don't want to make it so hard to find the
active areas that people give up. Needle in a haystack, as it were.

As for both files and messages, there's a message echo called STATS
where people list the number of messages per day by area. You can use
that to gauge which areas have traffic. Not sure about the file echoes,
but you could look in the messages in STATS to see a corresponding echo
for files.



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