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   Hello Charles!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 18.11.20 - 09:49, Charles Pierson wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    CP> Hello, August Abolins.   
    CP> On 11/17/20 9:30 PM you wrote:   
      
    CP>>> https://books2read.com/u/47QZq3   
      
    AA>> Echomail could use a landing page like that with little icons that   
    AA>> represent the various echos, and a FAQ on what echomail is and how   
    AA>> to participate.   
      
    CP> BBSes have all of the options to do pretty much that. Just not   
    CP> necessarily pretty buttons.   
      
   Maybe. But how are you going to inform the user/    
   conversationalist that such a thing as echomail even exits     
   when they probably have it in their heads that BBSing from the     
   80's is dead and requires retro computers to access?   
      
   There is nothing out that promotes that the othernets of yore     
   are still viable from modern devices.   
      
   Most potential users are reading blogs and forums that cater     
   to their interest.  Ephemeral conversation is often limited to     
   Facebook - because that is all they know.   
      
   If there was a landing page that describes what echomail is     
   and how to use it (either via the Telegram app, or fTelnet or     
   whatever interface) then they can be informed about the     
   strange world of BBSing via their devices too.   
      
   I think the messaging component should be promoted first,     
   *then* the BBS. Not the other way around as it is now.   
      
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