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   Hello Charles!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 18.11.20 - 14:08, Charles Pierson wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> An upgrade on layout would be good, especially when reading   
    AA>> through the various echos of a network. I think there is only one   
    AA>> Sychronet bbs that organizes the echos into categories first:   
      
    CP> That comes down to the various programs, and the Sysops.   
      
    CP> I believe at least several programs have the option for at least short   
    CP> descriptions for the message areas. Whether or not they are used is to   
    CP> each Sysop.   
      
   The short descriptions can provide good info, but the lists     
   are often unstructered, no sensical order.  If someone is just     
   looking for all the potential programming echos - for example,     
   they would work well all in one short-list group.   
      
      
    CP> Web interfaces, I couldn't say. I've not really studied them much.   
      
   Even the traditional BBSes don't necessarily organize message     
   areas by category.   
      
   The design of BBSes has been based on "find a bbs first, then     
   figure out where everything is".   
      
   The "Select Conferences" via QWK menus is not bad for the BBS     
   user. Some offline readers (SemPoint) offer a list of     
   selectable echos by TAGNAME only, and the selected ones can     
   come on the next QWK session.   
      
   But online, the BBS user often has to navigate across all the     
   available "networks" looking for the conference that fits     
   their interest.   
      
      
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