Hello Janis!

19 Jul 08 14:48, you wrote to Russell Tiedt:

 JK> It's on backbone.no now, but I'm still carrying it.  I thought about
 JK> cleaning out all those echos and had second thoughts.. a lot of them
 JK> have some information that I'd rather keep.. like USR_MODEMS, etc.

BACKBONE.NO listed echoes are still available for distribution, they are
just listed there to denote the fact that they havent had any traffic for x
amount of time. This affords individual systems, especially those we
recently listed to be able to setup their message bases with a list
(backbone.na) that rosters echoes that have traffic as opposed to forcing
sysops to entice users with a massive slot of dead echoes. One can still
use backbone.no in addition to the na file.

Remember that with this last audit, 21 echoes came out of BACKBONE.NO and
went back into BACKBONE.NA. Albeit a far greater number went into oblivion.

However, a echo with no traffic cannot convey any information.

The majority of the echoes that went into oblivion, backbone.dst, also
hailed from 5, 10 and even 15 years ago.

I hope you werent under the impression that BACKBONE.NO rostered echoes
were meant to go away, that is each individual sysops choice.

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