Re: Astronomy (was Re: Weather)
  By: mark lewis to Roger Nelson on Sat Jan 23 2016 10:25 am

 RN>> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?

 ML> most likely from the BACKBONE.NA... the BACKBONE.NA file is created from
 ML> the initial request to carry the echo on the backbone... the BACKBONE.NA
 ML> is not, TTBOMK, updated automatically from the echolist... the current
 ML> BACKBONE.NA file, 2015-Oct-29, contains the line

 ML> BAMA Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo

My BBS uses this description for the area, and Bama for the short description.
If the description needs updating I'll gladly do it, I just need to know what
would be better.

 ML> the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file and on
 ML> all the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long title as the
 ML> area's name...

A message requesting that in the Z1_BACKBONE area would probably get the
description changed in the .NA file, getting it changed on existing setups
might not be so easy though. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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