From: kkuzba{at}centurytel.net
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

* Author: Sarah Nunez
SN>  Umm, I'm not sure what you mean here by "elist" (I've not
SN>  run across that term, even on the Internet), but ELIST has
SN>  a specific meaning in FidoNet that doesn't make sense in
SN>  the context here.  Would you please elaborate?

    Elists was an email list service.  The C_ECHO was ported to
 the list via a gateway, so that elist groupmembers could read
 the echo and respond without access to one of the rapidly
 disappearing FIDO capable BBSs.  At the present time, the lists
 are provided and maintained by Yahoo!, having been acquired by
 Yahoo! some time ago.  I'm fairly certain that there was at least
 one other owner between eGroups and Yahoo, or maybe eGroups was
 the intermediary operator and the original name was elists.com.
 At any rate, it was set up quite a while back, and there were
 many happy hours of wrangling over html, re:re:re:re:re: headers
 and whatnot.  For quite a while, the gateway was not working
 properly, and I was getting maybe two messages a week.  Now it is
 working and the email list people have returned and I had two
 months worth of unattended C_ECHO mail and I've been sitting here
 for three hours and have 265 messages remaining!  I missed it.
 It's good to fire up the compiler, though I've had some trouble
 with running my QuickC under Windows XP Home.  It doesn't like
 to allow environment variables, it seems.  I'm working on it.
 At any rate, the elist reference should indicated email lists.

>  kkuzba{at}centurytel.net   http://home.centurytel.net/kkuzba
>  'Well!' said Merry. 'I never expected to see those again!'

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