23 Jan 16 07:08, you wrote to Damon A. Getsman:

 RN>>> Not allowed.

 DAG>>   Wait wut?
 DAG>> Isn't this like Odyssea Fringe Research or something like that? I
 DAG>> thought it was a house for all of the tinfoil theories.

 RN> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?

most likely from the BACKBONE.NA... the BACKBONE.NA file is created from
the initial request to carry the echo on the backbone... the BACKBONE.NA is
not, TTBOMK, updated automatically from the echolist... the current
BACKBONE.NA file, 2015-Oct-29, contains the line

BAMA                Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo

numerous systems use the BACKBONE.NA style files to create all their
message areas from... they import their .NA files and the descriptive
names, which are taken from the echolist's long title for each area, become
the areas' names... this really should be changed a bit so that the
echotags are the areas' names and the long titles are used as the areas'
descriptions... but that won't help the problem of an echo changing its
long title in the echolist and the various .NA files not being updated or
even that BBSes can some how update their message areas' descriptions
automatically when the long title changes...


since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the BAMA area was

  Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo

in the current echolist, the long title for the area is

  Science Research Echo


the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file and on
all the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long title as the
area's name...

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