-=> Quoting mark lewis to Scott Adams <=-

 ml> {at}MSGID: 1:3634/12{at}fidonet 8e8a3bc7
 RT>> Thought it wasan advertisement only echo, ...
 
 ml>> no, there actually used to be some decent conversation
 ml>> in here year ago... then the bots hit and some of them
 ml>> post the same shit /DAILY/... because of that, i
 ml>> haven't joined several othernets that i've been
 ml>> interested in... and then there are the ones where no
 ml>> one answers your questions to their posts... haven't
 ml>> joined them,
 
 SA>      Then you've not joined the right networks :)  STN
 SA> was good for years...MirageNet as well..it closed down
 SA> though recently.  I've run my network AdventureNet for
 SA> 10+ years and it doesn't have the same old stuff as
 SA> far as the boring fido fighting and politics.  We reply
 SA> to every post there :)

 ml> yabbut i was talking about postings in this echo where folk would drop
 ml> in a post about their network and then disappear never to answer any
 ml> questions about their network... 
 ml> the only other recent conversations were about the posting of ANSI
 ml> and/or other color coded messages messages in this echo that are
 ml> unreadable to everyone reading with a reader that doesn't decode ANSI
 ml> and other coloring codes... i wonder how they'd like it if i were to
 ml> start posting messages using my BBS' coloring codes? i know their
 ml> readers wouldn't recognise it... anyway, that one was solved and
 ml> hopefully eli didn't take anything offensively... 

        Well that's how fido works.  Folks do that stuff all the
        time.  But there will always be someone who posts ansi
        ads who doesn't realize.  After 15 plus years I've
        not seen that change :)


... And on the 8th day, the Vorlons said, "Just kidding!"
--- Fringe BBS