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<<< What is an Echo? >>>
An Echo message is simply a message that is "Echoed" to many other BBS's
that participate in that particular Echo topic. This is a great way to share
ideas & comments with far more people than would be possible with a local
system. For example, you can ask a technical question in the Lotus 123
echo about a problem that you're having and recieve replies from all over
the country. The same is true with the Humor echo or the Chatter echos.
All of these echos have specifics topics that they cover. Please do not
deviate from the covered topics.
The message that you post is sent to a central processing board every night
and then forwarded to all areas of the country for all to see. The responses
that others give are returned by the same way. It usually takes a two or three
days for a response to arrive back to Gainesville, so be patient.
If this all sounds complicated to you, just relax, after you post a message,
the computer does the rest.