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    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Fri Feb 7 14:09:56 2025
    Hi folks

    So you will have (hopefully) seen some posts here about thinking for echomail areas and also some posts I made today into a number of other fsxNet echos.

    I'll try to summarise proposals/thinking:

    1) close FSX_MAG and shift discussions about Talisman/Magicka etc. to FSX_BBS

    2) close FSX_ENG and shift discussions about Enigma 1/2 BBS to FSX_BBS

    3) close FSX_STA and set stats posts from hubs to just weekly into FSX_BOT but retain nightly stats updates on website fsxnet.nz

    4) close FSX_FIL and ask sysops to post such updates to FSX_BOT and at a frequency that is ideally once weekly or a worse once daily

    5) close FSX_LFE and move those topics etc. across to FSX_GEN

    6) close FSX_MUSIC and broaden the description of FSX_VIDEO so that all topics in FSX_MUSIC can be included in the FSX_VIDEO echo... so merging stuff into one current echo vs trying to create yet another new one to do the same thing

    7) close FSX_SPACE and direct BOT posts in that echo to FSX_BOT and general chat about Space etc. to FSX_GEN

    8) broaden the description of FSX_HAM so all topics of radio comms etc. are on topic not just HAM / Amateur related stuff... this is a great suggestion from the community - thanks :)

    9) perhaps broaden the description of FSX_ADS to also encourage ANSI art posts into this echo - thoughts?

    I will cross-post this update to both FSX_GEN and FSX_NET

    Please keep all replies to FSX_NET thanks.

    Best, Paul aka Avon

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  • From neoshock@21:1/150 to Avon on Thu Feb 6 19:27:57 2025
    Hi Avon,
    Everything you mentioned here seems to make sense to me. Here are some thoughts as well.

    6) close FSX_MUSIC and broaden the description of FSX_VIDEO so that all topics in FSX_MUSIC can be included in the FSX_VIDEO echo... so merging stuff into one current echo vs trying to create yet another new one to
    do the same thing

    FSX_ENT (Entertainment) could be considered which could be a discussion about all forms of entertainment like music, movies, TV, online (like youtube, peertube, podcasts ...etc) gaming and books. which could merge FSX_MUSIC _VIDEO and _GAMING

    7) close FSX_SPACE and direct BOT posts in that echo to FSX_BOT and general chat about Space etc. to FSX_GEN

    8) broaden the description of FSX_HAM so all topics of radio comms etc. are on topic not just HAM / Amateur related stuff... this is a great suggestion from the community - thanks :)

    FSX_SI (Special Interests) could also be considered for discussions for niche interests like _SPACE, HAM Cryptographcs, all sorts of little areas that might not be the best fit for _GEN

    Just food for thought.

    Lloyd (neoshock) sysop @ Vintage Pi BBS
    vintagepi.asuscomm.com

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to neoshock on Fri Feb 7 17:46:42 2025
    On 06 Feb 2025 at 07:27p, neoshock pondered and said...

    Hi Avon,
    Everything you mentioned here seems to make sense to me. Here are some thoughts as well.

    cheers ears...

    FSX_ENT (Entertainment) could be considered which could be a discussion about all forms of entertainment like music, movies, TV, online (like youtube, peertube, podcasts ...etc) gaming and books. which could merge FSX_MUSIC _VIDEO and _GAMING
    FSX_SI (Special Interests) could also be considered for discussions for niche interests like _SPACE, HAM Cryptographcs, all sorts of little
    areas that might not be the best fit for _GEN
    Just food for thought.

    I agree entertainment may be a much wider catch-all but I figure the games echo is doing OK and just merging down the movies/tv/streaming/music etc. in one current area may be a lower path of resistance vs creating a new echo.

    Likewise for special interests, the niggle there is how to best define what is in/out of scope, so just moving things back to 'general chat' for now seems a better bet... but you'll notice I did keep the crypto echo as I have a soft spot for encoded comms etc.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From opicron@21:3/126 to Avon on Fri Feb 7 13:14:26 2025
    Hi folks
    into this echo - thoughts?

    I made the adjustments on my board to be quick ;) sounds great.

    oP!

    ... My other tagline is a Porsche.

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