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 Message 42 
 Ulrich Schroeter to Janis Kracht 
 New Echo HOTDOGED announcement 
 19 Oct 13 22:33:10 
 
Hi Janis,

Saturday October 19 2013 12:04, you wrote to me:

 JK> Hi Uli!
 >>> There should be pretty good coverage now.. and today, Ross did send
 >>> Rudi an ACK in the Z1_BACKBONE echo, and Ross also updated the file
 >>> BACKBONE.NA (list of echotags on the Backbone).

 >> is there an fileecho in which the backbone.na will be tic'd
 >> forwarded ?
 JK> I see in my netmail you found it :)

after some deeper review what happens with the ARCmail bundle
(as it was still kept intact), yes  =;)
I found the problem a transfered editor config from old DOS days,
with a message size limitation set that did fit to DOS machines, but
no newer OS'ses ...


 >> the list request to your areafix ends in the middle of the list, and
 >> an fileecho 'backbone' isn't listed in the first half  =:D

 JK> And I saw you found your problem there as well.. :)  But as I
 JK> mentioned, I do want to clean up some of those dead msg. areas on the
 JK> list.

here there is no quick fix required until the next one complains about
limited view sizes and what the user can read   =:D


 >>>> the expected delay in creating echos  =;))) thats much better than
 >>>> a months delay I've seen in other echo creation processes  =;)

 >>> Yes, generally it's pretty fast once one has an echo on the
 >>> Echolist.. :) Now, as people see the new BACKBONE.NA, we'll
 >>> probably see more folks hooking in :)

 >> just checked, my last backbone.na is dated 24th April 1999 (!!!)
 >> :-&
 JK> :)  You can grab the lastest one here:
 JK> http://www.filegate.net/backbone/backbone.na

downloaded and rehatched in the newly activated links distribution path
at least this file echo should receive R24, R28 and maybe other connected
regions within zone 2 =;)

thanks anyway  ;-)


 JK> Take care,
 JK> Janis
 JK> -$- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
 JK>  $ Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

regards, uli   ;-)

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