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

DOVE-Net nodes (BBSes) are *not* required to carry these conferences, so if the sysop is morally opposed to all AI discussion and/or use/experimentation, they may choose not to carry one or both conferences. Also, since the equivalent sub-boards aren't in the pre-existing stock/default Synchronet configuration (yet), no DOVE-Net nodes will have them in their configuration to begin with.

That said, I hope the new "safe spaces" to discuss/use (generative) AI will be appreciated by some.
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Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Sep 22 2026 06:58 am

Come on, it's just ai. Do people need safe spaces about ai talk and content? Are you serious?

Some people don't want to hear/read about AI - they're "safe" from it by not carrying or reading that sub. That's what I mean by "safe space". Sorry to have triggered you; I hope you get can the help you need. :-P
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Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences
By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed Sep 23 2026 02:53 pm

Re: 2 new AI-related DOVE-Net conferences
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Sep 22 2026 06:58 am

Come on, it's just ai. Do people need safe spaces about ai talk and content? Are you serious?

Some people don't want to hear/read about AI - they're "safe" from it by not carrying or reading that sub. That's what I mean by "safe space". Sorry to have triggered you; I hope you get can the help you need. :-P

You didn't trigger me, i thought you were joking because it was so lame.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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