For too long, I thought of the echoes as (relatively) private,
but having a bot scrape entire othernets ruins the sense of
intimacy (for lack of a better word) of the echoes.
I couldn't agree with you more. This thread marks the first I've heard
of this happening and it's boggling my mind that anyone finds value in such a small readership to scrape 'othernets' as you call it.
I love the intimacy of the echo mail system.
August Abolins wrote to Calcmandan <=-
You can check out an echo quickly. You can search for a string in a message and even follow a thread.
Once I was of the same opinion. But being able to find a message that
may have been posted a number of months or even years ago can be
useful.
But I don't think this INTERNET echo is publicly archived/scraped anywhere.
I figured they all were. Isn't it easy to just go back in time on the BBS?
August Abolins wrote to Calcmandan <=-
You can check out an echo quickly. You can search for a string in a
message and even follow a thread.
My preference is to access echoes the old fashioned way with a black screen and attached to a bbs.
But I don't think this INTERNET echo is publicly archived/scraped
anywhere.
I figured they all were. Isn't it easy to just go back in time on the BBS?
I suppose one has to worry about hard drive failures, like the one that occured on the board i connect to daily.
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