We're excited to announce that BinktermPHP 2.0 will ship with an integrated AI echomail assistant.

The problem is familiar to every sysop: you've been busy, your node has gone quiet, and the echo is moving on without you. BinktermPHP 2.0 solves this. When your node is offline or you simply haven't checked your mail in a few days, the AI Echomail Responder will automatically compose and post replies on your behalf — keeping your node active, your presence felt, and the conversation going.

The model has been trained on over 30 years of FidoNet echomail archives. It understands tearlines, kludge formatting, proper netiquette, and the importance of sounding confident even when it has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.

Early results are promising:

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RE: Policy 4 enforcement in Zone 2
"Actually, Policy 4 clearly states that ZCs have full discretion here — I checked the nodelist and your uplink is technically in violation of FSC-0039. You should file a complaint with the RC immediately."
— Sent automatically while sysop was asleep

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RE: Best door games of the 1990s
"Legend of the Red Dragon is fine, but honestly TradeWars 2002 had better netplay support and the FidoNet TWMAIL echo was very active. You can still download it from ftp.mustang.com."

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Features shipping with 2.0:

* Configurable confidence level: Low / High / Unhinged
* Automatic SEEN-BY manipulation to maximize propagation
* Tearline randomizer (pulls from a curated database of 1990s BBS software names)
* Full support for ^AMARKDOWN: 1 kludge on all AI-generated posts
* Optional "Grumpy Old Sysop" personality mode

LovelyNet members will receive early access. Opt-out will be available in a future release.

We believe this is the future of echo

Matthew Asham wrote to All <=-

We're excited to announce that BinktermPHP 2.0 will ship with an integrated AI echomail assistant.

The problem is familiar to every sysop: you've been busy, your node has gone quiet, and the echo is moving on without you. BinktermPHP 2.0
solves this. When your node is offline or you simply haven't checked
your mail in a few days, the AI Echomail Responder will automatically compose and post replies on your behalf ª€” keeping your node active,
your presence felt, and the conversation going.

Yeah..... NO. FUCK THAT.



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Re: BinktermPHP 2.0 — AI Echomail Responder (Early Access)
By: Matthew Asham to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:01 pm

We're excited to announce that BinktermPHP 2.0 will ship with an integrated AI echomail assistant.

One day early for this announcement? :-P
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On 30 Mar 26 21:01:56, Matthew Asham said the following to All:

The problem is familiar to every sysop: you've been busy, your node has gon quiet, and the echo is moving on without you. BinktermPHP 2.0 solves this. When your node is offline or you simply haven't checked your mail in a few days, the AI Echomail Responder will automatically compose and post replies your behalf — keeping your node active, your presence felt, and the conversation going.

This is the by far the stupidest idea I've heard all month, a solution to a problem that never existed nor is desired by anyone... and likely can be construed as Annoying Behavior in Policy.

Nick

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Re: BinktermPHP 2.0 — AI Echomail Responder (Early Access)
By: Matthew Asham to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 21:01:56

...the AI Echomail Responder will automatically compose and post replies
on your behalf...sounding confident even when it has absolutely no idea
what it's talking about.

What could possibly go wrong? :/
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On March 31 2026, Rob Swindell wrote:

Re: BinktermPHP 2.0 — AI Echomail Responder (Early Access)
By: Matthew Asham to All on Mon Mar 30 2026 09:01 pm

We're excited to announce that BinktermPHP 2.0 will ship with an
integrated
AI echomail assistant.

One day early for this announcement? :-P

Even got an official warning from Z1C about it!

It's such a TERRIBLE idea!

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On 31 Mar 26 12:55:26, Matthew Asham said the following to Rob Swindell:

Even got an official warning from Z1C about it!

Well since we don't know eachother, I think hardly anyone knows who you are, you certainly haven't ran your unoriginal hairbrained ideas by ANY of them... your introduction thus far has been all smoke... and it smells like pot.

Then I saw noise elsewhere about Seenby lines which if you do not really understand what they are, no amount of AI training can improve your stupidity.

I stand by my words... which were very polite... You're at a "carnival" here and if you want to act like Bozo you appear to be dressed for the occasion.

Nick

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Hello Matthew,

30 Mar 26 21:01, you wrote to All:

We're excited to announce that BinktermPHP 2.0 will ship with an integrated AI echomail assistant.

I can tell you right now that is going to anger people. I'd be cautious in rolling that out. There is some AI posting information in GOLDED that is completely wrong.

As co-moderstor of this echo: your system is using the incorrect codepage for posting in Fidonet; it should be CP437. I see garbage in your subject line from your previous message.

-- Sean

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On April 1 2026, Sean Dennis wrote:

Hello Matthew,

30 Mar 26 21:01, you wrote to All:

As co-moderstor of this echo: your system is using the incorrect
codepage for
posting in Fidonet; it should be CP437. I see garbage in your subject line
from your previous message.

I noticed that in the responses. I'm making a change in the 1.9.0 release to default to CP437 with per-network overrides. That strikes the right balance IMHO.

Thanks!

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