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

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

sadly, "we" don't... it is up to the moderators and the
distribution networks (ie: backbone systems)... the elist is
"only" a moderator maintained list of echotags... there are some
"backbone" systems that do prune "quiet" echotags but many do not
because of the sporadic nature of many echotags...

the best thing is to carry those that you see traffic in and
prune out that that you don't... some sites are configured to
autolink areas that have traffic in them that are not already in
their configs... this would allow you to pick up areas that have
been dormant for some time however, you'd then also be getting
those that are hit with "is this area alive" posts ;)

without a centralized distribution managament system, there is
little way for anything to really be done... it is each system
for itself in this area of configuration...

)\/(ark