26 Jan 16 15:22, you wrote to me:

 ml>> apparently they don't know how to publish the areas they carry,
 ml>> either...

 KE> There is no "they" as that would suggest that there is an organised
 KE> structure.

apparently there is a "they" and there is structure to the fidoweb... whether
you or others want to see, understand or believe that...

 ml>> that simple thing might get more folks connecting if there was such a
 ml>> list... /especially/ of areas like this that no one else knows
 ml>> about... is

 KE> You could do an AreMgr list request at one of the traditional zone
 KE> gates.

which systems would those be? the ""traditional"" zone gates no longer exist in
the nodelist and are no longer easily identified...

 KE> You can then still decide to maintain the traditional structure and as
 KE> your structural uplink to add the echo to his/her service.

 ml>> this one of those things listed in the secret book of BWM???

 KE> Sure, in principle it boils down to the following.

 KE> If I carry an Echo, you can get it from my system. If it is not there,
 KE> poor luck, go and look for sombody who does.

why not just look in a maintained list of areas and which systems they are
available from??? hello??

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