Subj : Housekeeping
To   : Commodore Clifford
From : Ogg
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 10:55 pm

Hello Commodore Clifford!

 CC> Ogg... the "They" I was referring to are the echo
 CC> moderators.  If they can't promote and drive conversation
 CC> to one echo why are you insisting that I should be the one
 CC> to do it for them?  I have my own things I'm responsible
 CC> for.  I don't feel sorry or bad about it.

Noted.  I would agree as to the role of a moderator should be  
to foster conversations to a certain degree. But some  
moderators just intend to step in when things steer off-topic  
otherwise they choose to be invisible.


 CC> And why not have hundreds of empty echo areas and
 CC> newsgroups?  This is why.  I don't want my users seeing
 CC> tons of empty nothing.  On top of that, I run on actual
 CC> vintage Atari hardware (and have no intention of changing
 CC> that).  Having hundreds of useless echos bogs the system
 CC> down.

But conversations need to start "somewhere", so a general topic  
chat echo is a good place for that. Then, when the personal  
intoductions are made and the participants clarify what topic  
they are interested in, they can agree to populate the  
appropriate echo to make it "undead".




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