23 Jan 16 14:24, you wrote to me:

 RN>>>> Not allowed.

 DAG>>>   Wait wut?
 DAG>>> Isn't this like Odyssea Fringe Research or something like that? I
 DAG>>> thought it was a house for all of the tinfoil theories.

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

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

 RN> I see.  However, my main interest in updating the area listing is in
 RN> the ELIST.  That's where the latest info is.

agreed...

 RN> I don't know who does the updating of BACKBONE.NA, but it is wrong.

someone on the various backbones does the updating but that updating is
apparently only adding and removing of echo tags and the long title from the
elist... any other updates apparently require specific attention being given
to requests from the moderator(s) to the various backbones that carry their
area(s)...

 RN> I routinely post the updates in the echo when I submit them and the
 RN> robot replies.  To wit:

yes but that doesn't mean that the backbones monitor those... indeed, it is
pretty visible that they do not ;)

 RN> The above is an old one, but this hasn't been what you quoted below for
 RN> many, many years.

as noted in my quote below, the change occured between 2008-Aug-31 and the
next release of the echolist (2008-Sep-30)...

 RN> This is an echo where I post Space Weather and artricles I receive
 RN> from NASA and nothing more.  Note the absense of the word "Fringe".  I
 RN> got away from that stuff years ago.

i fully understand :)

[trim]

 ml>> since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the
 ml>> BAMA area was

 RN> It should not have appeared that way in the ELIST.

see my note above... it changed *in the echolist* in Sep 2008 but not every
where else...

[edit] now that i think about it, i have seen things similar to this having
been posted in old fidonews editions... haven't seen anything similar in many
many years but a lot has changed since then, too O:) [/edit]

[trim]

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

 RN> That's a good question.  I should have the answer in a couple of days.

that'll take care of at least one .NA distributor but likely won't do anything
for all the BBSes already carry the area with the old title... that being
because they likely require manual updating... i need to go manually update my
fastecho config on my main system but i've already adjusted some of the other
BBSes hosted here... my main system uses the echotags for the area names so it
is only fastecho that needs updating so that the various .NA files it exports
have the proper description as it now stands ;)

[time passes]

ok, that update has now been done here and my fastecho is exporting its .NA
files with the new description for the BAMA echotag ;)

)\/(ark

... Oh - ah, I'm going to blow it up.
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