JD>> And I still want to know if this is an international feed, and is
 JD>> there a moderator.

 PE>> There used to be an international feed, but there isn't anymore.
 PE>> I would say that Andrew Gulovsen is the moderator by default,
 PE>> since you can sort of say he created the echo.  However, there

 ag> shock horror.. me falls off me chair.. somone remembers }B-)

No, I wasn't around at the time, I only found out about it when
you told me about it a year ago or whenever.

 PE>> is nothing in Z3EL0594.LZH about it.  I think a message should

 ag> its only a file..

A file that should be kept updated!!!  You only have to send in
the information once.  If you don't put something in there 
saying it is Blake's 7 messages only, then people could well
put in general science-fiction stuff and say "The rules didn't
forbid it".

 PE>> be sent to Craig Westbury to get that put in the official echo
 PE>> list.  Hey Andrew, you going to do that and put yourself down
 PE>> as moderator?  BFN.  Paul.

 ag> the echo traffic doesn't warrent moderation.. the initial rules haven't
 ag> been posted since 1992 (or was it 1991.. i forget..) will have to hunt
 ag> them up one day, but they were very simple.. somethink like: "Blakes_7
 ag> echo is for discussion on the TV Sci-Fi show Blakes7"

If you don't put someone as moderator, then the moderation
defaults to the *C, so I've heard.  You don't actually have
to do anything as moderator, since as you say, there's nothing
to moderate.  Same as I am the moderator of PUBLIC_DOMAIN, but
I've never actually moderated anything as there is nothing to
moderate.

 ag> the link to the UK existed from about oct'91 until december the same year
 ag> when we lost the link (well it actually stayed up for about 2 more months
 ag> but no return traffic so i pulled the plug) we had a link to new zealand
 ag> that only ever had the one burst of msgs, again about the time we lost the
 ag> uk link :-(

 PE>> this area was created about the 1st oct 1991 to coinside
 PE>> with the creation of
 PE>> same named echo in the UK which was also created and link
 PE>> joining UK to OZ was quickly established..

 ag> ahh.. its good to have a history file..

My messagebase goes back to 26/4/93, with over 500 messages in it.
I don't have a separate "history file" as such.

 ag> many thanx.. am stealing that msg for me own history file }B-)

My message area for Blake's 7 is 1 meg in size (uncompressed).
I just bought a 540 meg IDE drive for $320.  So the Blake's 7
file is costing me 60c.  I've needed to search it several times,
very useful.  Small price to pay?  Less than the cost of a bus
ticket to get me from St Leonards to Chatswood.  And I've never
considered not going to Chatswood because it's too expensive!
BFN.  Paul.
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