TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
   MSGID: 1:106/127 fb86f7ab   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   On 01 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...   
    AA> Often, when I revisit the older-than-2month "tagged for replies"     
    AA> messages, I can't remember Wtf I had in mind as a reply.  :/      
    AA> Sometimes it comes back to me in a few seconds, so then I may     
    AA> decide to keep them on the back-burner a little while longer.   
    AA>    
    AA> Sometimes I later realize that someone else may have delt with     
    AA> the topic.   
    AA>    
    AA> This is part of the reason I think sysops should never let an     
    AA> echo to completely purge of all (old) messages.  Instead, try to     
    AA> keep at least a modicum selection of say "the last 200" or so.   
    AA>    
      
   I believe my point softwares that I used kept 300 messages per echo.   
      
   My BBS here holds 500 per echo. If I am able to get a new phone this year,   
   and let this one be strictly BBS related, I'll probably expand on that. I'm   
   currently carrying around 200 message areas I believe, and unfortunately,   
   this phone doesn't let applications run off of the SD card, so it limits my   
   available space.   
      
    AA>  CS> BTW, saw some silly dust ups about the telegram bit.  Best   
    AA>  CS> to tell them it's from our standpoint much like a fancy OLR   
    AA>  CS> that works well in a world of tablets and such technology..   
    AA>    
    AA> Thank you for that. I'd like to forward your full comment to the     
    AA> FIDONET.TELEGRAM echo.  It may serve to educate new sysops/users.   
      
   I think a big part of the dust up was a lack of communication. wh8ch is   
   somewhat humourous considering this is a communucation medium.   
      
    AA>  CS> Technically when Dale Shipp was feeding me traffic on the   
    AA>  CS> USS McHenry then USS Essex, we dove off to an email to email   
    AA>  CS> delivery with OLR on each end.  Similar in concept.   
    AA>    
    AA> OMG.. "our" data was being transmitted to various USS ships     
    AA> without our prior knowledge!  What about privacy, what about our     
    AA> rights! What unsavoury servers are utilized on those ships?  Or..     
    AA> even what over-the-air non-FTN techonolgy was used for     
    AA> transmissions?  The horror.   
    AA>    
    AA> I know one sysop who implemented a mechanism to forward netmail     
    AA> to his user's cell phones in the early 2000's.  Surely, a lot of     
    AA> "unkown" servers and systems would be involved in-between.  Noone     
    AA> seemed to be bothered by that.   
    AA>    
      
   In the early to mid 90's, at least one echo I was active in used a   
   gateway program and Juno email to connect to email lists. There wsn't any   
   issue that I was aware of.   
      
   But there has always been complaints about changes to how and where Fidonet   
   traffic is.    
      
   "Privacy" concerns just seem to loom larger these days than in the past.   
      
    AA> Too late. Less than just 2 weeks of implementation, a couple of     
    AA> modertors changed their minds (they approved the transmissions     
    AA> previously) about this alternate OLR after only a couple other     
    AA> people raised questions.   
    AA>    
    AA> The experiment lost WIFI, X-FILES, NZ_FIDONET, WHAT'S_HOT! &     
    AA> RETAIL_HORROR ..all good candidates for the independent chat     
    AA> style of messaging.   
    AA>    
    AA> Maybe you can help dispell any fears?   
      
   Again, I still say it was a communication problem. I remember Carol   
   mentioning at least that the link was coming. That's more than those echos   
   you mention above did.   
      
   Like I was trying to say before during that hooplah, going forward, even   
   after getting moderators permission, take a little time explaining how it   
   works in the echo before going live.   
      
   Yes, there are going to be some users and even sysops opposed to the idea,   
   but they are free to no longer participate in the echo if it bothers them   
   that much.   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)   
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