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  • Re: Holy Smoke!

    From August Abolins@1:124/5016 to George Pope on Mon Jan 31 23:20:06 2022
    On 12/29/2021 11:49 AM, between "George Pope":

    What happened? This used to be one of Fido's busiest echos & now it's EMPTY???

    I was in here some 20+ years ago, having a grand time pointing out
    errors in assumptions to atheists & theists alike. . .

    I remember this one being pretty busy too.

    This hobby needs a way to announce which echos are revisited by someone, even if there is just one post after many moons.
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757 to August Abolins on Tue Feb 1 11:37:12 2022
    On 12/29/2021 11:49 AM, between "George Pope":
    What happened? This used to be one of Fido's busiest echos & now it's
    EMPTY???

    I was in here some 20+ years ago, having a grand time pointing out
    errors in assumptions to atheists & theists alike. . .
    I remember this one being pretty busy too.
    This hobby needs a way to announce which echos are revisited by someone, even if there is just one post after many moons.

    I agree -- it's hit or miss, if I haven't thought to tag it in the "All areas" listing. . .

    You're right -- "active areas" should include all with new posts, not just tagged.

    I access via the BBS -- you're using QWK, right?

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  • From August Abolins@1:124/5016 to George Pope on Sun Feb 6 22:51:41 2022
    On 2/1/2022 2:37 PM, between "George Pope": & me

    I remember this one being pretty busy too.
    This hobby needs a way to announce which echos are revisited by someone, even
    if there is just one post after many moons.

    I agree -- it's hit or miss, if I haven't thought to tag it in the "All areas" listing. . .

    You're right -- "active areas" should include all with new posts, not just tagged.

    I access via the BBS -- you're using QWK, right?

    No. I use OpenXP (my point prog) for echos that I feel that I would want to participate more often.

    I use the nntp-method from (2:221/1) just to check out content and lurk for a while. (I wouldn't mind using nntp from trmb, but the login simply stopped working)

    I use the webified interface (trmb.ca/bbbs) when am not not at my usual pc and if I just want to check on the status of messages in familiar echos. The latter seems to have issues, so I try to avoid it.

    I played with QWK for a while. But the doing the telnet connection to the bbs, navigating through the menus and triggering a download and the reverse process to upload started to get tedious for me.

    I still keep Sempoint in my back pocket though:

    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/files/sempoint.avi ,or
    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/files/sempoint-preview.zip
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