Hello mark!

Tuesday August 22 2017 10:33, you wrote to me:


 >  On 2017 Aug 22 13:34:00, you wrote to All:

 VC>>      Uplink mgrs    Program  Password        BBBS
 VC>>      ------------   -------- --------------- ----


 > i think you missed something ;)

yep, didn't see that one :(

 VC>> introduction of using the Areas File and yes I have one I built
 VC>> myself for FIDONET and the standard one BACKBONE.NA for FIDONET
 VC>> but the problem here is that backbone.na is not being maintained
 VC>> hence my usage of my own

 > BACKBONE.NA is definitely being maintained... rossC was doing it
 > before he left fidonet and benR is doing it now... the last
 > BACKBONE.NA was sent out 18 Mar 2017 not long after the switchover
 > from rossC to benR... that's also about the same time that i was
 > assigned as r18c and also brought on as the third backbone star...

That the date I have but there are diffs against my other list also 
backbone.na
used to come out on a regular basis not 5+ months etc however that does not
resolve the issue I have with a down link not being able to connect to a
specific echo area.



Vince

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