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echo: bama
to: mark lewis
from: Roger Nelson
date: 2016-01-26 08:27:26
subject: Astronomy (was Re: Weather)

On Mon Jan-25-2016 20:06, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:

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

[...]

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

I convert the BACKBONE.NA into AREAS.TXT for my own use, but never bothered
to look at the descriptions.


Regards,

Roger 
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