Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

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Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

Watch and you'll see 3-7 from the same place on a lot of days.

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Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Onc week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

Watch and you'll see 3-7 from the same place on a lot of days.

I know, it's ridonculous.

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Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

I've always posted once a day in the BBS ADS echoes across FTNs; but I wouldn't mind switching to once a week if everyone did, or if it were an FTN rule...

I just do what the rest of us do.



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On 09 Mar 2026, paulie420 said the following...

I've always posted once a day in the BBS ADS echoes across FTNs; but I

once a day seems reasonable to me. I like seeing the ads come thru!

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Hello paulie420!

09 Mar 26 18:09, you wrote to Geri Atricks:

Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY??
Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

I've always posted once a day in the BBS ADS echoes across FTNs; but I wouldn't mind switching to once a week if everyone did, or if it were
an FTN rule...

I just do what the rest of us do.

So your a sheep then?!


I don't post my bbs add due to the same ones being posted over and over and over and over. It would just get drowned out....




Vorlon


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Hello Geri!

09 Mar 26 06:59, you wrote to all:

Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Once
a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

But then no one would know about there supper spiffy ellite bbs system. #);

To spam the adds is to block out any chance of another bbs add being seen.


Vorlon


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Hello paulie420!

09 Mar 26 18:09, you wrote to Geri Atricks:

Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY??
Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

I've always posted once a day in the BBS ADS echoes across FTNs; but I wouldn't mind switching to once a week if everyone did, or if it were
an FTN rule...

I just do what the rest of us do.

So your a sheep then! ^-;

Be brave, start a trend that your bbs add goes out only once a week.

Off the 600 area's on this system that have 8000-10000 message limit's the bbs add area's are either set to 50 or on pass through due to
the spamming of a single bbs's add.

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Just like the BBS software centric taglines and sigs. That others that don't run that software, just see junk.



Vorlon


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Hello GRiM!

09 Mar 26 21:22, you wrote to paulie420:

I've always posted once a day in the BBS ADS echoes across FTNs;
but I

once a day seems reasonable to me. I like seeing the ads come thru!

Once a day for the same thing that isn't changing is way to much. Once a week is plenty.



Vorlon


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I just do what the rest of us do.

Hey Paul, we're all going to go jump off this cliff, come join us. :D :D :D

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On 09 Mar 2026, Geri Atricks said the following...

Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

I post every other day or around that.. I do it on different networks, if everyone is doing it once a week then I can change my script. Otherwise, do like me, unjoin that echo and skip right over it.. :)


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phigan wrote to Vorlon <=-

To spam the adds is to block out any chance of another bbs add being seen.

Agreed. On the slow networks, even once a week is meh.
That was just an aside. Every day is a flood.

I also agree with that. Daily makes no sense to me. In fact I see it
as a detractor for calling that BBS.

Here's a good analogy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf


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To spam the adds is to block out any chance of another bbs add being seen.

Agreed. On the slow networks, even once a week is meh.
That was just an aside. Every day is a flood.
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Re: BBS Ads group
By: Vorlon to paulie420 on Tue Mar 10 2026 13:59:32

Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY??

Be brave, start a trend that your bbs add goes out only once a week.
bbs add area's are either set to 50 or on pass through due to

It's "ad". "Add" is a mathamatical function.
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Come on guys, is it REALLY necessary to post your add EVERY DAY?? Once a week would be plenty and not be spamming the echo.

Woo! After annoying the testing echo for a while, I have now made this problem _worse_!

Well, okay, not really; I've set up my holiday calendar to post a different ANSI every day in the BBS Ads group. And hopefully it's _mostly_ automated, now.

But I still like that this complaint was the proximate cause for me to do it.

And, to be fair, I'm not aiming for it to be a good advertisement; I just like the idea of having a daily post to the ANSI base, where it's different every day.

If anyone else has 370+ appropriate, self-made ANSIs lying around and is running a Mystic BBS, I can offer tips if you want to do something similar.

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And, to be fair, I'm not aiming
for it to be a good advertisement;
I just like the idea of having a
daily post to the ANSI base, where
it's different every day.

No complaints here! A different ANSI each day is cool and gives me a reason to check out the echo. It's the ones that are the same ad every day that aren't great.


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On 26 Apr 2026, slacker said the following...

And, to be fair, I'm not aiming
for it to be a good advertisement;
I just like the idea of having a
daily post to the ANSI base, where
it's different every day.

No complaints here! A different ANSI each day is cool and gives me a reason to check out the echo. It's the ones that are the same ad every
day that aren't great.

+1 for me!

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No complaints here! A different ANSI each day is cool and gives me a reason to check out the echo. It's the ones that are the same ad every
day that aren't great.

<3

I appreciate it, and yeah, it'd be lovely if people posted random ANSIs, and also lovely if the people who _did_ post ads frequently could wind up with a wider variety of ANSIs.

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