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 :)

yabbut i was talking about postings in this echo where folk would drop in a
post about their network and then disappear never to answer any questions
about their network...

the only other recent conversations were about the posting of ANSI and/or
other color coded messages messages in this echo that are unreadable to
everyone reading with a reader that doesn't decode ANSI and other coloring
codes... i wonder how they'd like it if i were to start posting messages
using my BBS' coloring codes? i know their readers wouldn't recognise it...
anyway, that one was solved and hopefully eli didn't take anything
offensively...

)\/(ark