Hi Joe,

On 2016-06-15 10:40:28, you wrote to Earl Croasmun:

 EC>> Before I started reading some of the posts in fidonews, I would not
 EC>> have believed that reason. Now, I believe it. If the listkeeper
 EC>> (actually the listkeeper bot) had some sort of power like a European
 EC>> monarch to grant or withhold echo status, that would be one thing. But
 EC>> it is just a list, a directory, a map.

 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 is
 JD> no longer even on the backbone, and thus not propogated.  However,
 JD> some may still be using it in other zones, not knowing that it was
 JD> discontinued.

'Not on the backbone' does not equal 'discontinued'. ;)


Bye, Wilfred.

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