On 15 Jan 06  16:53:21, Nancy Backus got back to Maurice Kinal    
   -> Re: bragging rights   
      
    NB> LOL   Messages in the echos DO go a long way towards keeping echos   
    NB> "solvent", don't they?  :)  Yeah, you guys have the most messages,   
    NB> probably, but I do write longer ones, don't I?  (generally...)     
       
   I've been meaning to talk to you about that....        
      
   Get back to me after I secured my bomb shelter.   :)     
      
    MK> I think we both have stretched this echo far beyond it's scope, or   
    MK> what one might have the impression DADS should be about.   
      
    NB> In these days of reduced traffic, I've noticed a lot more latitude all   
    NB> around for "off-topic"-ish messages... :)  Not just here, but just   
    NB> about everywhere I tend to lurk as well.  But I remember the days in   
    NB> GENEALOGY when not only off-topic was frowned upon but also too many   
    NB> messages answering the same question were as well.  :)  Waiting to see   
    NB> how many others have answered is a hard habit to break, let me tell   
    NB> you!  :)    
      
   Half the problem in in the traffic.  Too little and the Echo    
   goes away.  Too much and the Echo becomes unmanagable.     
      
   The saving grace of "too much" is in the spin-off echoes.     
      
   Where the problem right now is that many in those spin-offs    
   don't know that there was a parent Echo that might be still    
   viable.     
      
   (see how I made it back to topic?)   :)      
      
      
   --- OMX/Blue Wave/DOS v2.30   
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