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TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17
 On 2022 Jan 09 14:28:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> nope... did you not read the bottom of page 8 of that publication???

 ml>> [spoon feeding mode]

 ml>>      When  the  "contact"  is  listed in parentheses it means that the
 ml>>      conference is NOT currently  active  but  the  person  listed  is
 ml>>      interested in STARTING a conference on the topic.

 ml>> [/spoon feeding mode]

 AA> If that still stands today, shouldn't that rule be present in
 AA> the current elist how-to instead of an old .nws file from the
 AA> 80s that many people wouldn't come across?

i'm guessing you have, by now, read my post to wilfred explaining that it was
provided as a valid example of listing non-distributed echotags in the
echolist ;)

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