Hello, mark lewis.
On 22.10.13 20:59 you wrote:

 US>> CDP proposal FSP-1016.003  Automatic configuration of Points in 
 US>> Fidonet has answered this question regarding echo forwarding 
 US>> lists .... in section
 US>>    3.1.2.1.2 ECHOZZZZ.ZIP
 US>> and
 US>>   3.2.2  Transmitting the application date
 ->> Freq  ECHOLIST
 US>> The only thing to consider ... nodes supporting HotDogED clients 
 US>> should add the freq magic ECHOLIST in their system and 
 US>> ECHOZZZZ.ZIP to be sent. So on the supporting system the echo 
 US>> uplink lists have to be compiled and named ECHOZZZZ.LST and zip'd 
 US>> thereafter ...  =;)
 ML> is there anything wrong with sending the existing, published and 
 ML> distributed Echolist? is the above perhaps talking about something 
 ML> else other than the Echolist? something, perhaps, like the list of 
 ML> available areas (%AVAIL) from the feed's uplinks? where are other, 
 ML> unlisted, area names to be found? how is one to know of the 
 ML> existance of an area if it is not in the %AVAIL or %LIST areafix 
 ML> responses?

I prefer creating a communicating interface between hotdoged and the node to
transfer not only echo names, but also amount of messages in the group, last
message date and so on. 

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