On 19 Feb 17  23:41:36 Nick Andre wrote...

NA> Ed's message struck a nerve not because it was trying to stir things
NA> up, but  because it was posted to SO MANY echoes. And the intent was
NA> to drive traffic  to HIS system, not Fido as a whole. Any positive
NA> that comes from that is  due to his blatent disregard for his fellow
NA> Sysops. 
NA> 
NA> Nick
NA> 
NA> gladiators? (1:229/426) 

To which Drew Klenotic replies...

I have to agree with this.  It was blatant self promotion and I don't see
anything positive coming from it.  Especially when I'm trying to convince
old users who already had issues with Fido based on their memories of how
it was in the past to come back and give it a try.

The problem is there is no way of measuring the damage really... how many
people saw how this backfired and started reconsidering whether it was
worth staying around here.  For some maybe it did cause an uptick and
maybe that uptick will help.... but for some echos I think it just put
the ! on the fact it was dead.

I had really wanted to get an Atari echo going again.  The problem is a
lot of the userbase for the real retro BBSs are wary of networked
messages.  And when something like this happens right in the middle of
trying to convice them that stuff like this doesn't happen anymore?

TLDR; I agree with Nick.

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