Peter Deane wrote in a message to Craig Hutchison:

 CH> According to the EchoList of August this year,

 CH>     Echo: TRAPDOOR
 CH>     Desc: support echo for the Amigan frontend
 CH>    OSMod: 
 CH>    Z3Mod: 
 CH> Importer: Peter Deane
 CH>  Address: 
 CH>    Rules: 

 CH> Correct me if I'm wrong, but by rights, if a dupe ring does 
 CH> occur, wouldn't it be the fault of the other importer.

 PD> Faults don't worry me.  It's the dupe ring itself.  As I have said
 PD> before we (Amiga users) have to keep our house in order, because
 PD> IBM sysops providing links can easily find a solution to a dupe
 PD> ring by cutting links.  (Hmmmmmmm). 

True, up to a point.  I cut the feed between here and Trev when I began
receiving a full (uncontrolled) feed from the US because of the dupe loop
it would have caused.

The major problem the Amiga has is its own supporters, not the IBM sysops. 
As an example;  Amiganet in Qld has been disconnected for almost 2 months
because an NC is offline "temporarily", with support like that
it's no wonder systems begin closing.

That said, I'm actually in here looking for an AmigaNet feed. :)

 CH> Of course the Echo List I took this from is now 2 months out of 
 CH> date.

 PD> Nah, strictly speaking it IS correct.  I'm still importing it. 
 PD> It's just only going to 711/439 and net 622 from below here.  Alwyn
 PD> Smiths gate for it must be getting on to Net 640.  That leaves
 PD> anyone else without a feed for TRAPDOOR at all :-(

It's unlikely to leave Net 640 while there is a chance I will cop flak over
dupe loops.  All my downlinks know that should they, or one of their
downlinks, cause a dupe loop I will sever the link from here immediately,
without notice.


Alwyn

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