26 Jan 16 15:57, you wrote to me:

 BF>>> Yeah well, I'm not surprised. I can recommend you to drop those
 BF>>> outdated lists and links and rather hook on to a FidoWeb server
 BF>>> nearby.

 ml>> how is that going to provide a list of available areas??? that web
 ml>> thing doesn't have any sort of list of available areas carried on all
 ml>> its connected systems, does it???

 WV> You make the (often made) mistake of thinking of the fidoweb as an entity.
 WV> It isn't an entity, it's a method!

riiiight...

 WV> So as there isn't an enty there can't be a single list of available
 WV> areas. The available areas to you are the areas available at your
 WV> uplinks. You can get them by sending a %LIST to their AreaFix...

so how can you access the areafix of a system you are *not* connected to to see
if you even want/need to connect to them???

BTW: what is an "uplink" if there is no top-down hierarchy?? ;)

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