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echo: elist
to: Ben Ritchey
from: Joe Delahaye
date: 2016-06-15 16:18:24
subject: Re: Alleged hijacking

Re: Re: Alleged hijacking
  By: Ben Ritchey to Joe Delahaye on Wed Jun 15 2016 09:49:30

 JD>> Yes, but it lists a moderator (gasp).  I think the problem is that
 JD>> somebody decides (usually from Z1) to list an echo that has been
 JD>> around for a while, and is no longer listed.  In a lot of cases it
 JD>> is no longer even on the backbone, and thus not propogated. 
 JD>> However, some may still be using it in other zones, not knowing that
 JD>> it was discontinued.

 BR> Thank you Joe, you described the problem perfectly. Add to that the
 BR> requirement 
 BR> in Z1 for elisting an echo before it can be added to the backbone, voila'

I'm not so sure that the backbone requires an elisting to be included.


 BR> I think another field in the echolist database for "coordinator" in
 BR> addition to 
 BR> moderator (TBD works here) would probably solve the issue :)

Perhaps, Caretaker might work
--- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32
* Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)
SEEN-BY: 123/500 633/0 267 280 281 408 812
@PATH: 249/303 280/464 154/10 123/500 633/280 267

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