On 09 Jan 17  08:20:14, Nicholas Boel said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   NB>  NB>> I haven't added many new echos to my system (maybe besides   
   NB>  NB>> Fidonet's UTF-8 echo) in quite some time. In any case, I've   
   NB>  NB>> actually been pondering removin bunch, rather than adding more. :)   
   NB>    
   NB>  NA> I know! How many Linux echoes do we really need?   
   NB>    
   NB> Well, one for every friggin distribution out there, DUH! :)   
      
   You mean for every distribution, every application, every possible    
   configuration scenario... akin to the comp hiarchy on Usenet.   
      
   NB> RA support echos and OS2 echos too. Along with the various technical areas    
   NB> software is not even being used anymore (TUB and TORNADO come to mind right   
   NB> off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are plenty others) Seriously,   
   NB> there's like 5+ of each of them and they're lucky to get one post a month   
   NB> besides the moderator's robot postings. Yet nobody has any kind of urge   
   NB> whatsoever to knock these down and combine them into one message base that   
   NB> could possibly get 2 posts per month instead of that lonely one.   
      
   Well because you know that would just be the kiss of death of Fido, if any   
   echoes started vanishing like that...   
      
   NB> At one point it must have just became a chest pounding thing to show how ma   
   NB> echos you moderated and how many you have collected over the years, and it   
   NB> doesn't seem like anyone ever wanted to give up that feeling. Now we have a   
   NB> wasteland of a bunch of dead echos and consolidation is definitely not   
   NB> something people want to come to terms with until /maybe/ the day one reali   
   NB> the only one seeing the robot postings are themselves. Even then there's a   
   NB> good chance it won't be realized.   
      
   Agreed totally...    
      
   Nick   
      
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