Re: Re: Alleged hijacking
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to Joe Delahaye on Wed Jun 15 2016 17:49:33

 JD>> Depends Wilfred.  If the original creator, discontinues it due to
 JD>> lack of traffic, on no traffic, I would say that is officially
 JD>> discontinues, I did mention that in my message though

 WV> What I ment is that if the nab just stops distributing an area, it will
 WV> keep existing on a lot of other (connected) systems. What they atleast
 WV> should do, is 
 WV> post a message in such an area a couple of days in advance annoucing the
 WV> pending removal. So nodes are aware of it. Or can be when they decide to
 WV> read their message base in the distant future...


You mean within the echo that is being removed?  Yes, that would make sense. 
However, the NAB does post, I believe monthly, maybe more, a list of echos
added, removed, or put in hiates.
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