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echo: fidonews
to: ED KOON
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2019-01-18 09:20:00
subject: Re: Politics & Matzdobre

-=> On 01-17-19 08:33, ED KOON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

 TL> Gated would be nice, then more of us sysops could take part (I hate web
 TL> forum interfaces).

 EK> I agree on the gating part, but there's no way to do it with my
 EK> WordPress interface, unless it's RSS feed could is imported, though
 EK> it's not ftsc compliant.

My experience with gated RSS is not that flash, many result in URLs, which are
fiddly to read from a FTN environment (manual copy/paste).  But yeah, you've
effectively locked me out of the forum without gating, I don't handle those
things well. :(

 EK> It is however very SEO optimized. Reaching deep into cyberspace has
 EK> it's advantages.. :)

That doesn't really help me for reading, though it might increase the odds I
run into links to the content on social media.

 EK> This hit piece on house speaker Nancy Pelosi went absolutely viral for
 EK> a couple days.. LOL!

Hmm, that could be a double edged sword. ;)


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