Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : Commodore Clifford
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 21 2023 07:25 am

-=> Commodore Clifford wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 CC> Yeah, I did the same... and found that mostly that the "traffic" is the
 CC> monthly posting of the rules.


I always wanted BBS software that would auto-create areas based on
traffic, and auto-delete them after 6 months without messages - that way
any echoes that started picking up traffic would automagically show up,
and go away when they tapered off.

The monthly moderator rules posts would throw things off - and every
once in a while someone posts a "LINK CHECK" message to every Fido echo,
like they think the problem is with the connection to their uplink.

Don't get me started on moderators - there are many echoes "moderated"
by a handful of sysops whose only contributions are monthly rules
postings and updating the elist. In my opinion, if you're moderator,
you're tasked with fostering and maintaining discussions. If you're just
keeping a dead echo alive, that doesn't do service to the net. To the
contrary, a network full of dead echoes doesn't encourage a new caller
to stick around, whereas a smaller number of echoes with message traffic
will retain callers.





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