Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : Thom Miller
From : Avon
Date : Sun Apr 16 2023 09:20 am

On 15 Apr 2023 at 08:10a, Thom Miller pondered and said...
 
 TM> Heh. That's funny. I assumed the 'S' was in reference to how open you
 TM> guys are with information about how to join and how forthcoming you are
 TM> with help. I didn't realize you meant the number of echoes. The limited
 TM> number of echoes is one of the other things I appreciate about it, too,
 TM> though.

well to be fair I've never pondered the S overly deeply but yeah one aspect was to try to keep the echo area numbers to a reasonably limited number. When I started the network it was just FSX_GEN ..

 TM> IME that's always been an issue with text only communications. I think
 TM> it's part of the reason why emoticons and later emojii were invented. I
 TM> tend to go heavy on the emoticons, especially when I'm just being snarky
 TM> or making a joke.

Yes agreed. I also use a lot of :) to infer emotion/intent and I see some other do too...

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