30 Jun 16 07:26, you wrote to me:

 ml>>>> you've been told that the echo's name has been changed
for several
 ml>>>> years, tim...

 TR>>> No...I haven't been!

 ml>> i told you at least once and i know that roger has said it more than
 ml>> twice... there was even a discussion about how the old name was still
 ml>> appearing instead of the new one...

 RN> I fixed that some time ago.  I was a little surprised that the old
 RN> name was still in use and sent the correction to Ross, who changed it
 RN> that day.  It had been corrected in BACKBONE.NA when I chenged the
 RN> theme, but not in all distributions.  Ross is in charge of the
 RN> AREAS.TXT file and that's where the old name was.

yup... the problem, as noted previously, is that some sysops build their
message bases from the backbone.na list but there is no way for their software
to update their areas from a new copy of the file... once built, updating the
titles and descriptions is a manual thing and there's no notification of
differences between the new file and the old one...

 ml>>>> your sysop used an old list when they created the areas on their
 ml>>>> bbs... your sysop needs to rename the echo on their
system so they
 ml>>>> have the proper name on it... your sysop is the one that needs to
 ml>>>> FixTheirStuff...

 RN> That's what I told him.

i remember...

 TR>>> Whatever. Since `discussion' isn't allowed in this echo I'll not be
 TR>>> posting in here much.

 ml>> we'll see if your sysop responds to my netmail about fixing the
 ml>> echo's name/description on his system ;)

 RN> I wrote him, too.  I haven't received a reply yet.

i sent my netmail direct and then followed up with a li'l "have
you?" note in
the test echo where he had recently posted... he did respond to both but
apparently found the netmail after he read my post in the test echo... his
response to me was that on his next day off, he would fix the title of the BAMA
 area on his system to use the new title and description...

 ml>> ... Bug: 1. Programmer's term for a feature.

 RN> ... Bug: 2. An elusive creature living in a program which makes it
 RN> incorrect.

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

... Bug: 3. A known design feature that doesn't work properly.
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