Since this echo has no moderator, and on top of that, very little traffic, I want to suggest something.

The Lord echo be merged back into BBS_DOORS or something. Fido has way too
many echos with very little traffic in them, and by merging them together, strong, robust echos can be seen again.

Thoughts?

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| MP> Since this echo has no moderator, and on top of that, very little
| MP> traffic, I want to suggest something.
| MP> The Lord echo be merged back into BBS_DOORS or something. Fido has way
| MP> too many echos with very little traffic in them, and by merging them
| MP> together, strong, robust echos can be seen again. Thoughts?

I'm probably the closest thing to a moderator (I Elisted it) and employ a strict hands-off policy for all the echoes I maintain. It's usually quite unnecessary anyway <g> but there is a bit of traffic now and then here, so ... FWIW

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Re: Re: This echo
By: BEN RITCHEY to MICHAEL PRESLAR on Mon Nov 14 2005 11:33 am

* An ongoing debate between Michael Preslar and All rages on ...

| MP> Since this echo has no moderator, and on top of that, very little
| MP> traffic, I want to suggest something.
| MP> The Lord echo be merged back into BBS_DOORS or something. Fido has way | MP> too many echos with very little traffic in them, and by merging them
| MP> together, strong, robust echos can be seen again. Thoughts?

I'm probably the closest thing to a moderator (I Elisted it) and employ a strict hands-off policy for all the echoes I maintain. It's usually quite unnecessary anyway <g> but there is a bit of traffic now and then here, so . FWIW

FWIW... And this is me being polite.

Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this echo to rejoin
the general door echos (I suggest the bbs_doors echo), in an attempt to grow a stronger bbs doors community.
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On (13 Nov 05) Michael Preslar wrote to All...

Since this echo has no moderator, and on top of that, very little
traffic, I
want to suggest something.

Who's been updating the echo then?

As to your suggestion, I'd end up dropping this echo, because there'd be
wayy too much traffic not of interest to me. . .

I prefer the lesser traffic that's virtually always on-topic to a topic
I have an interest in.

Because I care,
<+]::-{)} (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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| MP> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this echo to
| MP> rejoin the general door echos (I suggest the bbs_doors echo), in an

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

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On (14 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to MICHAEL PRESLAR...

| MP> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this echo
to
| MP> rejoin the general door echos (I suggest the bbs_doors echo), in
an

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in private
mail...

Because I care,
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On (14 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to MICHAEL PRESLAR...

| MP> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this echo
to
| MP> rejoin the general door echos (I suggest the bbs_doors echo), in
an

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

What's your timetable for decision on this?

Because I care,
<+]::-{)} (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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* An ongoing debate between George Pope and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

| MP>> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

| GP> Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in private

To de-list or to wait & see ?

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* An ongoing debate between George Pope and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

| GP> What's your timetable for decision on this?

I show regular traffic almost weekly, so not anytime soon ... IMHO the echo belongs to the users who post in same, so we'll see. :)

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On (16 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to GEORGE POPE...

| MP>> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

| GP> Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in
private

To de-list or to wait & see ?

To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES echo.

Because I care,
<+]::-{)} (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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* An ongoing debate between George Pope and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

To de-list or to wait & see ?

| GP> To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES echo.

Well, you can't just kill an echo that has traffic, but if and when traffic dies down to nothing for an extended period of time it will be dropped automatically <g> and I will de-list it then. Anyone who doesn't want to participate in this forum can just drop it locally ... what's the big deal anyway? LORD has been around for a long time, it would almost be offensive to some to kill it . :)

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On (16 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to GEORGE POPE...

| MP>> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this

Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...

| GP> Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in
private

To de-list or to wait & see ?

To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES echo.
Because I care,
<+]::-{)} (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

This LORD echo has been pretty much abandoned for well over a year now, moderator-wise I think. I've heard nothing from Bobby Queen in close to two years now if I recall right. I vote to have the echo disbanded, but only if mail pertaining to the LORD programs is welcome on the Doorgames echo. Which I
think has been without any moderator as well for a long time. At any rate, pretty much all LORD programming has been dead for well over a year now, with exception of a small handful or two of people including myself. LORD II programming is completely dead, and WT-Lord programming is only alive because Joseph Watson still cares about the game.

Since I've seen no sign in many months of Ruth Argust in the Doorgames echo I would like to know who is taking care of it now. I see little point in closing
down this LORD echo due to it having no moderator, if it is going to be moved to another echo that also appears to be without any moderator. But as things stand now in the Lord programming community, there no longer seems to be any point to having a separate echo for LORD when there is so little activity in it
over the past year's time.

There appears to be only a few active programmers working on LORD programs any more. Myself, Marty Blankenship, Joseph Watson, Michael Preslar, and Jay Hodges appear to be the only ones left who do Lord programming these days. That's just not enough people to warrant keeping a separate echo on Fidonet for
LORD I guess.

On side note, the Official Lord II IGM Archive site needs a new webmaster since
Max Larivee has been missing for some 15-16 months now. If anyone is interested in running the site, please contact Shannon Talley at shannon.talley@fidotel.com and make arrangements with him to take over the abandoned site. I have no desire to run a Lord II site myself, but I owe it to
Bobby Queen to find a new administrator for his site, which was created by Ben Tiefert several years ago with Seth Robinson's approval. Donald Tidmore

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| DT> I vote to have the echo disbanded, but only if mail pertaining to the
| DT> LORD programs is welcome on the Doorgames echo.

| DT> I see little point in closing down this LORD echo due to it having no
| DT> moderator, if it is going to be moved to another echo that also
| DT> appears to be without any moderator.

Your opinions are duly noted, thanks.

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On (17 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to GEORGE POPE...

To de-list or to wait & see ?

| GP> To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES
echo.

Well, you can't just kill an echo that has traffic, but if and when traffic
dies down to nothing for an extended period of time it will be dropped automatically <g> and I will de-list it then. Anyone who doesn't want
to
participate in this forum can just drop it locally ... what's the big
deal
anyway? LORD has been around for a long time, it would almost be
offensive to
some to kill it . :)

Works for me!

So why was the question even asked if the end result was a given anyway?

I like that this echo is ONLY about LORD -- I'd rather there be little,
but on-topic interesting, content than read DOORGAMES where I'd have to
wade through a majority of posts I have no interest in to try to
identify the odd LORD one, and anyway isn't DOORGAMES more a technical
echo than a chat one?

Because I care,
<+]::-{)} (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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* An ongoing debate between George Pope and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

| GP> I like that this echo is ONLY about LORD -- I'd rather there be
| GP> little, but on-topic interesting, content than read DOORGAMES where
| GP> I'd have to wade through a majority of posts I have no interest in to
| GP> try to identify the odd LORD one, and anyway isn't DOORGAMES more a
| GP> technical echo than a chat one?

I agree, but it seems some have a problem wading thru the multitude of low traffic echos in fidonet <shrug>. I pick & choose what I can handle and ignore the rest, myself <g>.

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*** Quoting BEN RITCHEY from a message to GEORGE POPE ***

| GP> I'd have to wade through a majority of posts I have no interest in

to try to identify the odd LORD one, and anyway isn't DOORGAMES

| GP> more a technical echo than a chat one?

I agree, but it seems some have a problem wading thru the multitude

Somehow I am missing what the term wading means to these others. George is correct in his example, but how do you wade through low volume and topic specific. If one is not interested in lord, he need not get the lord echo, if one is and there is a bunch of Lord spread out through the doors echo, along with all the other stuff thats where the wading comes in. It would be like having Synchronet, Telegard and Maximus and a lot of the others carrying
on support in BBS Carnival. Maybe I am just unclear for the resoning behind it.

Mike

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On (16 Nov 05) BEN RITCHEY wrote to GEORGE POPE...

>>> BR> | MP>> Please delist the lord echo and allow the traffic from this
>>> BR>> Your opinion is noted ... we'll see ...
>>> | GP> Ken Weitzel has expressed much the same sentiment to me, in
>>> private
>>>
>>> To de-list or to wait & see ?
>> To kill the LORD echo and add the traffic all to the DOORGAMES echo.
>> Because I care,
>> <+]::-{)} (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))

This LORD echo has been pretty much abandoned for well over a year now,

>moderator-wise I think. I've heard nothing from Bobby Queen in close to tw
>years now if I recall right. I vote to have the echo disbanded, but only if
>mail pertaining to the LORD programs is welcome on the Doorgames echo. Whic
>think has been without any moderator as well for a long time. At any rate,
>pretty much all LORD programming has been dead for well over a year now, wit
>exception of a small handful or two of people including myself. LORD II
>programming is completely dead, and WT-Lord programming is only alive becaus
>Joseph Watson still cares about the game.

Since I've seen no sign in many months of Ruth Argust in the Doorgames echo

>would like to know who is taking care of it now. I see little point in clos
>down this LORD echo due to it having no moderator, if it is going to be move
>to another echo that also appears to be without any moderator. But as thing
>stand now in the Lord programming community, there no longer seems to be any
>point to having a separate echo for LORD when there is so little activity in
>over the past year's time.

There appears to be only a few active programmers working on LORD programs a

>more. Myself, Marty Blankenship, Joseph Watson, Michael Preslar, and Jay
>Hodges appear to be the only ones left who do Lord programming these days.
>That's just not enough people to warrant keeping a separate echo on Fidonet
>LORD I guess.

On side note, the Official Lord II IGM Archive site needs a new webmaster si

>Max Larivee has been missing for some 15-16 months now. If anyone is
>interested in running the site, please contact Shannon Talley at
>shannon.talley@fidotel.com and make arrangements with him to take over the
>abandoned site. I have no desire to run a Lord II site myself, but I owe it
>Bobby Queen to find a new administrator for his site, which was created by B
>Tiefert several years ago with Seth Robinson's approval. Donald Tidmore


Hi...

I'm not missing, right here where I'm supposed to be
doing this years Seasons :)

Hard to believe how many years it's been, and how quick
they've gone by...

Ken

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Well, you can't just kill an echo that has traffic, but if and when traffic

>dies down to nothing for an extended period of time it will be dropped
>automatically <g> and I will de-list it then. Anyone who doesn't want to
>participate in this forum can just drop it locally ... what's the big deal
>anyway? LORD has been around for a long time, it would almost be offensive t
>some to kill it . :)


Hi...

Sad days, indeed. Doesn't seem all that long ago that
a separate echo was needed for lord sysops and authors
just to keep the traffic to a reasonably dull roar... :(

Anybody else left here who remembers well the originator
and moderator of lord_sysop - Della Moore ?

Take care.

Ken

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On (20 Nov 05) Ken Weitzel wrote to Ben Ritchey...

Anybody else left here who remembers well the originator
and moderator of lord_sysop - Della Moore ?

Not I -- what happened to her?

Because I care,
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Is this echo still active?
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Is this echo still active?

Well, you're posting in it. ;)

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Is this echo still active?

Well, you're posting in it. ;)

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Re: This echo
By: Dallas Vinson to All on Fri Apr 22 2022 02:47 am

Is this echo still active?

I posted here a couple of days ago - there is not a lot of traffic but it's still alive :)

73,

Tom
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Is this echo still active?

Well, you're posting in it. ;)

That he is!


Bye for now...
Sam

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Is this echo still active?

Well, you're posting in it. ;)

That he is!


Bye for now...
Sam

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Dallas,

Is this echo still active?

Only if there's an IGM to run it. <G>

Daryl

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Dallas,

Is this echo still active?

Only if there's an IGM to run it. <G>

Daryl

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