24 Jan 16 08:41, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 ML>> BAMA Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo

 AI>> My BBS uses this description for the area, and Bama for the short
 AI>> description. If the description needs updating I'll gladly do it, I
 AI>> just need to know what would be better.

 RN> That info is dated.  All current descriptions about echo areas are in
 RN> the Echolist.  I had no idea the BACKBONE.NA was different, since I
 RN> never used its descriptions.

many folks, myself included, configured our mail tosser to import the .NA
files to update the long titles for automatically added areas... the short
titles aka echotags already exist in the configurations... i did the import
thing for years before i switched to using the echotags to display to my
users... that mainly because many long descriptions were longer than the 40
characters allowed by my software... i figured that the echotag was much
better than umpteen areas all saying something like

  the official fidonet support echo for bl

;)

so now i only have to go correct those that say

  automatically added area

which are not many these days O:)

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