Hi August!

>> Unsorted:            Sorted:                     Percent:
>> ========             =======                     ========
>> 0  AUTOMOTIVE        24  EARTH                  0.85%

> EARTH echo intrigues me.  Is there a way to find out who carries it to see
> what specifically is the topic and a sampling?

All the hubs listed in Filegate.zxx carry the file echos, that is for sure.. :)

As far as the message echo echo the three NAB backbone stars and their 
downlinks carry it.  Unfortunately one of our BACKBONE stars is down (Dallas 
Hinton) until Sept. 12th, and all because IIRC his ISP cannot fix the 
connection problem until that date (insane...).

The Earth msg. echo is a chatty friendly place to talk about Earth and related 
items.  I talked to Dan Richter the FDN Coordinator, about some dinosaur 
footprints that were in my backyard that had always intrigued me :)

Here is the file description of the the file echos from filegate.zxx:

% FDN:          EARTH
% Coordinator:  Dan Richter, 1:317/3, dan@castlerockbbs.com
% Internet: http://www.castlerockbbs.com
%           http:/www.filegate.net/earth/
% Backbone:     EARTH (Earth Sciences)
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB:  Yes
% -----------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo                   DescriptionM
% -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Area WEATHER     0     !    EA: Daily graphic forecasts for N.America
Area MODIS       0     !    EA: Daily MODIS images of Earth
Area EPOD        0     !    EA: Daily Earth Science Pictures
Area E-SCIENCE   0     !    EA: Misc. Earth Science

Some of the above areas replicate area of the old discontinued NASA sub areas, 
like nasa/weather.... so earth/weather replaces that.


Take care,
Janis

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