On (22 Mar 05) Kurt Weiske wrote to All...

Hello Kurt,

 KW> I'm a new/old Fido sysop (ran 1:161/418 from 1991-2001, just got a new
 KW> node number last month) and I've been pleasantly surprised to see the
 KW> BBS scene bouncing back to find some sort of equilibrium with the
 KW> internet.

 KW> I've been adding echoes to my BBS and finding lots of 'ghost towns'
 KW> out there that used to be lively echoes. I did a little poking around,
 KW> and if the statistics on wwb_tech are correct, 190 echoes didn't have
 KW> any traffic in a month. Looking through the echomail archives on
 KW> fidonet.sensationcontent.com shows some echoes that haven't had
 KW> traffic for years!

 KW> Maybe it's time for housecleaning - killing off dead echoes will make
 KW> it easier for sysops and users to find active echoes and might help
 KW> stimulate conversations by increasing the per-echo traffic.

 KW> So, how do we go about doing this?


Not speaking for the Elist Keeper, but:

The Fidonet backbone (or whatever they are calling it now) is the
place to remove dead echos. The Elist is simply a list of echo tags
and does not always reflect connectivity. In fact, about half the echo
tags listed in the elist are from FTNs other than Fidonet. :)

Regards,
Frank

BTW: Welcome back!

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