-=> On 07-19-08  20:40,  Ross Cassell <=-
 -=> spoke to Janis Kracht about Ping <=-

 RC> BACKBONE.NO listed echoes are still available for distribution, they
 RC> are just  listed there to denote the fact that they havent had any 
 RC> traffic for x amount of time. This affords individual 

I did notice that you had dropped it from your NNTP system though, or at
least that is what the newserver software told me last time I visited.
It is in the list of echos available, but if I try to subscribe I get
error messages that say:

Newsgroup IC does not exist on the news server
Response from server: 411 411 No such newsgroup

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

Some echos with no traffic are held for special events, e.g.
z1_election, and have no traffic until then.

Some echos with lots of traffic convey no information of any use, e.g.
the ones gated from the internet usenet groups.

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



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