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    From Digital Man@VERT to All on Fri Oct 16 18:39:11 2026
    Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences
    By: Digital Man to All on Mon Sep 21 2026 12:29 pm

    2023 - AI Discussion
    2024 - AI Playground (post your AI slop/noise here, if you insist)

    Another new DOVE-Net conference added today:

    2025 - Health and Wellness

    ... yeah, some of us are getting (or already gotten) to "that age" :-)
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Sat Oct 17 12:12:14 2026
    Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences
    By: Digital Man to All on Fri Oct 16 2026 06:39 pm

    Another new DOVE-Net conference added today:

    2025 - Health and Wellness

    ... yeah, some of us are getting (or already gotten) to "that age" :-)

    :) Sometimes it happens sooner too, depending on things.

    Also, I think health & wellness could include mental health as well as physical health, and mental health issues (such as anxiety & depression) could affect people of any age.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Sat Oct 17 15:06:32 2026
    Re: Health and Wellness
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Oct 17 2026 12:12 pm

    2025 - Health and Wellness

    ... yeah, some of us are getting (or already gotten) to "that age" :-)

    :) Sometimes it happens sooner too, depending on things.

    Also, I think health & wellness could include mental health as well as physical health, and mental health issues (such as anxiety & depression) could affect people of any age.

    Absolutely. I didn't mean to exclude any congential/childhood/life-long ailment /discussions. It's just now, in my life, it's become more of a discussion point, for better or worse, and it occurred to me it probably is (or has been) for many other BBS users too, so there should be a discussion conference for that.

    Originally, DOVE-Net was kind of the "anti-FidoNet" and part of that meant doing almost everything differently - e.g. where FidoNet had hundreds of echoes, we just had a dozen or so. Now it's a couple dozen. :-)
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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Oct 18 08:48:00 2026
    Originally, DOVE-Net was kind of the "anti-FidoNet" and part of that meant doing almost everything differently - e.g. where FidoNet had hundreds of echoes, we just had a dozen or so. Now it's a couple dozen. :-)
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    I would have loved to see Fidonet to have a spring cleaning and go thru
    some of the very dead echos.

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  • From Mickey@VERT/TRANSPO to Digital Man on Sun Oct 18 20:19:52 2026
    Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences
    By: Digital Man to All on Fri Oct 16 2026 18:39:11

    Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences By: Digital Man to All on Mon Sep 21 2026 12:29 pm
    ... yeah, some of us are getting (or already gotten) to "that age" :-)

    I was 'getting' to that age a long, long time ago. :-)

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Matthew Munson on Mon Oct 19 09:00:09 2026
    Re: Health and Wellness
    By: Matthew Munson to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Oct 18 2026 08:48 am

    I would have loved to see Fidonet to have a spring cleaning and go thru some of the very dead echos.

    Echomail in fidonet is incredibly decentralized. There's multiple different e-lists, and multiple echos that only exist in some zones/regions/nets. There is a quasi-official "ECHOLIST" file that's supposedly hatched once a month, but I haven't dug into it in years.

    If a sysop doesn't want an dead echo on their board, they can simply unlink from it and remove it.

    ...Life is a hereditary disease.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to DaiTengu on Tue Oct 20 09:53:31 2026
    DaiTengu wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

    If a sysop doesn't want an dead echo on their board, they can simply unlink from it and remove it.

    Yes, but that doesn't fix the larger issue of getting Fidonet users the
    ability easily find active echoes, and to consolidate echoes to bring
    in more traffic. I'd thought of combining similar echoes to get more
    traffic into fewer echoes in Fidonews, but there wasn't consensus.

    What is helpful is that Nick Andre posts echoes with 30 days of traffic
    in one of the echoes, so I can see if there's traffic going on in an
    echo I don't carry, and add it on.

    What I've always wanted is to be able to link the whole backbone, then
    have a BBS system that would automatically create areas if they receive
    traffic, and delete them after x months of inactivity. Wouldn't that be
    cool?



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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Oct 21 20:32:00 2026
    What I've always wanted is to be able to link the whole
    backbone, then
    have a BBS system that would automatically create areas if
    they receive
    traffic, and delete them after x months of inactivity.
    Wouldn't that be
    cool?

    Claude can probably help you with that. ;) I would assume you'd also want it to do the opposite... somehow figure out when new echoes were added, and also to re-add old echoes if the traffic picks back up?


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Thu Oct 22 08:21:05 2026
    Dumas Walker wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Claude can probably help you with that. ;) I would assume you'd also want it to do the opposite... somehow figure out when new echoes were added, and also to re-add old echoes if the traffic picks back up?

    Yes, the design would be that you stay linked to the entire backbone
    and create echoes as needed. Then, delete them for inactivity after x
    months.



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