Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Al
Date : Fri Apr 21 2023 07:00 pm

> I've suggested consolidation of echoes, but never gotten any traction.

This is a good idea, but it's problematic.

> Instead of dead Commodore and Atari echoes, make an 8-bit echo. We used
> to have ARGUS, RADIUS and TAURUS echoes - all FTN mailers based on the
> same code-base, and consolidated everything to ARGUS now.

I only have ~200 areas here but I am connected to many more that haven't recieved traffic. I recieved mail in TERMINAT a few days ago so I added the area. I don't know if that was a good idea. Terminate is a great terminal. It includes a great FTN point setup that I used back in the day but it is all dial-up. I don't think it will be used (much) today.

I have many dead or probably dead areas but nodes are linked. If I remove the dead or probably dead areas those links get broken and linked nodes don't recieve that traffic, not nodes who are linked here.

When that happens to an echo it causes the area to malfunction and this is why I am reluctant to remove some of these old probably dead areas.

If we could somehow narrow the list of active areas it would be a good thing but this issue with dead or probably dead areas gets in the way.

There is no good way to determine what areas are active/dead.

I think it falls on the shoulders of sysops/bbs operators to determine what areas they include on their board based on the list of areas they are presented with.

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