o> Thank you all for the responses in the APPLE Echo.

 o>  Does your system receive the following Macintosh  echoes?:

 o>      ECHOMAC
 o>      HERMES_SYSOPS
 o>      MACCOMM
 o>      MACHW
 o>      MACSW
 o>      MACSYSOP
 o>      MAC_GAMES
 o>      MAC_TELEFINDER
 o>      SYSTEM7
 o>      POWERPC

currently, my system has only MAC_GAMES but with no messages showing in the
last 30 days... i've just posted a message in there with a datecode that
should be easy enough to figure out ;-)

 o> If it does, can you please post a message in them  and then
 o> let me know when you did, so I can determine which of them  is
 o> still disconnected.
 o>
 o> If your system does not carry them but you wish that it did,
 o> then please submit a request to your upstream feed to request
 o> that that may be added .

i have sent an areafix for all the rest and will try to post a similar
datecode message in them once i get confirmation that they are turned on...

)\/(ark