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Skriven 2006-04-27 22:59:36 av Thom LaCosta (1:261/1352.0)
    Kommentar till text 151 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Still alive ??
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:


 TL> other than the ones that either are used to communicate "official"
 TL> Fidonet matters, or ones that are the favorite places for the
 TL> malcontents to play the Fight-O-Net game.

 MvdV> There is little else left. Most of the content specific echos
 MvdV> have dried up... 

I no longer read many of the Fido echoes....there's a larger choice on the
internet, and because I'm on the 'net most of the day, it's more conventient
than this technology.


 MvdV>> It is just diluting whatever small resources there are left. But
 MvdV>> discontinuinG one would mean one of he moderators would have to
 MvdV>> hand in the head and we can't have that can we?

 TL> No, the moderator could simply request that the echo no longer be
 TL> carried by the distributors.

 MvdV> Since we don't have an organised distribution system acting as
 MvdV> one any more, such a request would merely result in some links to
 MvdV> be broken. I have seen it happen. My hub still carries *.500
 MvdV> echos. Net 500 was demised five years ago. It appears to be
 MvdV> easier to create an echo than to get rid of it. 

That sounds more that your hub is inattentive.....he or she simply may not know
that it's time to go home.

 MvdV>> These bulletins may have been useful in the past when InterNet
 MvdV>> access was for they happy few only. Today... they are just
 MvdV>> noise to most and a reason to hit the "next conference" button
 MvdV>> I fear.

 TL> Or simply not to carry the echo at all.

 MvdV> Which I suspect is happening. As I said, *I* delinked a couple of
 MvdV> echos mainly carrying robot messages.

Yes...at some point I will disconnect HAM....it's just too much of a bother to
delete the robot messages.

73
thom - k3hrn
http://www.zerobeat.net/ 
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