Wanting to hear others thoughts about File Stat areas. As-is, it seems most of them that are posted daily are near copies of each other. NASA photo of the day, and other BOT driven files / stuff passed around TICs.

With enig, I let users choose what areas to allow/omit from these posts, so TICs are left out, and I leave out any others from Xibalba. ...so what you're left with is actual new content.

I'd like to know what others think of this, and perhaps we could drive towards something similar to make these useful again.

As an aside: I think it may be time to remind some people that posting their BBS add daily is way too much :D



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On 29 Sep 2022, NuSkooler said the following...

Wanting to hear others thoughts about File Stat areas. As-is, it seems most of them that are posted daily are near copies of each other. NASA photo of the day, and other BOT driven files / stuff passed around TICs.

With enig, I let users choose what areas to allow/omit from these posts, so TICs are left out, and I leave out any others from Xibalba. ...so
what you're left with is actual new content.

I'd like to know what others think of this, and perhaps we could drive towards something similar to make these useful again.

As an aside: I think it may be time to remind some people that posting their BBS add daily is way too much :D

I agree with you completely. I only access those to bulk mark them read.

ogg
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On Thursday, September 29th ogg muttered...

I agree with you completely. I only access those to bulk mark them read.

This is exactly what I do. I used to try to pick through to see anything intersting, but there is just too much spam.... so 'M' = mark read, then move on.


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Re: New Files Posts
By: NuSkooler to All on Thu Sep 29 2022 11:46 am

As an aside: I think it may be time to remind some people that posting their BBS add daily is way too much :D

Do you mean ad (rather than add)?

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NuSkooler wrote to All <=-

Wanting to hear others thoughts about File Stat areas. As-is, it
seems most of them that are posted daily are near copies of each
other. NASA photo of the day, and other BOT driven files / stuff
passed around TICs.

With enig, I let users choose what areas to allow/omit from these
posts, so TICs are left out, and I leave out any others from
Xibalba. ...so what you're left with is actual new content.

I'd like to know what others think of this, and perhaps we could
drive towards something similar to make these useful again.

My opinion is that any "new files" post, in any echo, is completely
useless. Thirty years ago I wouldn't have said that, but now.... yup.



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Nightfox around Thursday, September 29th...

As an aside: I think it may be time to remind some people that
posting

their BBS add daily is way too much :D
Do you mean ad (rather than add)?

yes.


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On 29 Sep 2022 at 11:46a, NuSkooler pondered and said...

Wanting to hear others thoughts about File Stat areas. As-is, it seems most of them that are posted daily are near copies of each other. NASA photo of the day, and other BOT driven files / stuff passed around TICs.

This would be a great on-topic thread for fsx_net... but I understand the desire to post it here :)

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Am 29.09.22 schrieb Gamgee@21:2/138 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo Gamgee,

I'd like to know what others think of this, and perhaps we could
drive towards something similar to make these useful again.

My opinion is that any "new files" post, in any echo, is completely
useless. Thirty years ago I wouldn't have said that, but now.... yup.

+1

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Anna

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On 30 Sep 2022 at 10:08a, acn pondered and said...

I'd like to know what others think of this, and perhaps we could
drive towards something similar to make these useful again.

My opinion is that any "new files" post, in any echo, is completely useless. Thirty years ago I wouldn't have said that, but now.... yup.

+1

Agreed. I'd go further and say that files in general are
not particularly interesting. The only reason I log into
BBSes anymore is for messages and the occasional game.

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*** Quoting tenser from a message to acn ***

Agreed. I'd go further and say that files in general are not
particularly interesting. The only reason I log into BBSes anymore
is for messages and the occasional game.

Agreed. They're good for distributing the nodelists for that particular network, but otherwise I generally don't look at or carry the file echos on
my board.


Jay

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Twas Saturday, October 1st when Avon said...

This would be a great on-topic thread for fsx_net... but I understand the desire to post it here :)

I'm sick and on a lot of meds, so I may be missing what you're saying -- this is fsxNet/General, is it not? I can start the conversation elsewhere... ?



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Twas Saturday, October 1st when tenser said...

Agreed. I'd go further and say that files in general are not particularly interesting. The only reason I log into BBSes anymore is for messages and the occasional game.

I think it depend on the user. I have over 30+ GB downloaded from my board so far. It's not the most popular, but I like to think I have a nice collection that's semi hard to find elsewhere.

The "new files" posts from most of the boards are really just copies of each other though.


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On 30 Sep 2022 at 11:13a, NuSkooler pondered and said...

Twas Saturday, October 1st when Avon said...

This would be a great on-topic thread for fsx_net... but I understand desire to post it here :)

I'm sick and on a lot of meds, so I may be missing what you're saying -- this is fsxNet/General, is it not? I can start the conversation elsewhere... ?

Firstly sorry to hear you're unwell Nu, hope you feel better soon.

Yep gen is certainly a space for all sorts of chatter, it's just that I figured if you were asking about if echos should be changed or the stuff posted etc. to it should etc. then the fsx_net echo might be a good vehicle for such a discussion..

But no stress in posting the thread here either.

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On Monday, October 3rd Avon said...

Firstly sorry to hear you're unwell Nu, hope you feel better soon.
Yep gen is certainly a space for all sorts of chatter, it's just that I figured if you were asking about if echos should be changed or the stuff posted etc. to it should etc. then the fsx_net echo might be a good vehicle for such a discussion..

Oh shoot, gotcha. Yep you're right, I think I read you saying "fsx_net" as "fsxNet" and was like, yep, I'm here!

Sickness has moved to sinus infection, which it tends to do with me. Now to see how long it lingers :)



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