Subj : Housekeeping
To   : Thom Miller
From : Ogg
Date : Sat Apr 22 2023 08:23 am

Hello Thom Miller!

** On Friday 21.04.23 - 22:34, Thom Miller wrote to Ogg:

 TM> I mean...there's nothing really silly about it. It's a pretty well known
 TM> psychological issue, and one that certainly has ramifications in software
 TM> and systems design. Someone might be 'interested' in a specific topic,
 TM> but not interested enough to sift through 100 *other* topics to find the
 TM> one they're interested in.

Then.. simply organize the echos by category, or use CTL-F to  
look thru the echo descriptions to enable your users and  
yourself to find the echos that are of interest.

One BBS that I've visited in the past organizes the echos  
across ALL the different othernets in such way.  I think that's  
brilliant.  So, instead of one long list of echos in  
alphabetical order, the user is presented with a more useful  
palette to work with.

Eg.

[GENERAL CHAT]

CHAT ANYTHING_GOES ASIAN_LINK COFFEE_KLATSCH CANACHAT  
ALASKACHAT MEMORIES

[COMPUTERS, TECHNOLOGY]

INTERNET WINDOWS MOBILE WIFI CYBER-DANGER SECURITY IPV6  
PKEY_DROP PUBLIC_KEYS

[ENTERTAINMENT]

MOVIES MUSIC AUDIO FUNNY HOROSCOPE LITRPG

[DOMESTIC]

COOKING  HOME_N_GRDN

[SCIENCE]

ESSNASA EARTH

[ANIMALS]

DOGHOUSE CATSMEOW

[FIDONET RELATED]

GOLDEN XPOINT AFTERSHOCK FIDONET.TELEGRAM FIDO_UTIL FTSC_PUBLIC  
FUTURE4FIDO POINTS HOTDOGED NET_DEV

[POLITICS]

POLITICS FIDONEWS

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