-=> On 07-20-08  09:12,  Ross Cassell <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Ping <=-

 RC> Well the newsgroup server is not the mail hub, and is my
 RC> perogative to only include NA rostered files on it, no 
 RC> different than a BBS.

Of course.  It is also true that you sent me an Areafix with -
for a lot of the dead echos that got deleted.  IC was not one of them,
but when I discovered it was not on your NNTP access, I got to
wondering.
 
 DS> Some echos with lots of traffic convey no information of any use, e.g.
 DS> the ones gated from the internet usenet groups.

 RC> Ok, shall I put the echoes listed in BACKBONE.DST into the NA file
 RC> again? 

I would agree with a comment by Janis in another message -- put the
admin echos back.  However, it is possible that even some that look like
admin echos were never really used as such -- but created by some
wanna-be like BM used to do.

Question: How much traffic is in those echos gated from the internet?
And is it a load of any consequence on the system?  I see some echos
which have nothing but gated content in backbone.na versus backbone.int,
e.g. RECIPES.


 RC> Until someone put a knock knock message in here, this very
 RC> echo saw no traffic since Ward was the IC.

Guilty:-}}

I guess now that we have a quiet IC, there is nothing to say to him.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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