-=***> George Erdner on the New Temporary Moderat <***=-
 GE> "Usenet Disease". That's where topics enough people want to talk about
 GE> to make nothing more than a decent message thread get an entire
 GE> conference. On Fido, it seems that natural digressions of message
 GE> threads into areas close to the main topic get cut off instead of
 GE> wandering wherever they may.
We used to get that problem a few years ago, when fido was at its peak.
I am of the opinion, however, that it was the over moderating of the 
echos all the way around that really broke the camel's back. One of
the reasons the net groups do well, is because anyone, anybody, can
say anything and no one can tell them not to..... I kept telling sysops
that they had nothing to worry about. No listen, then. Lose business
later.
 GE> I've lurked in here for a long time before speaking up. And I've
 GE> noticed that there are a relatively few people actively participating.
 GE> Those who own the echo seem to want to keep it extremely narrow and
 GE> focused.
It has been very focused for years, and our core of people used to be 
around 25 of us or so, I would say, perhaps more. Many have left because 
their boards no longer carry the fido stuff. And those here, probably
have switched boards to stay here. This is the third one I ma using
in less than a year.
It has a "title" and it is meant to be focused. Unlike the net, where
focus is a matter of blindness, and recklessness.
 GE> participants in here will diminsh to nothing, and with a limited amount
 GE> of message traffic, the participants will eventually move over to
 GE> Usenet, and this will become yet another dead Fido echo.
We are hoping to get this to the net. Mike is working on it...
... brook___every film will be better than the last one...
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