On Sat Jan-23-2016 19:39, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:

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 RN> I don't know who does the updating of BACKBONE.NA, but it is wrong.

 ml> someone on the various backbones does the updating but that
 ml> updating is apparently only adding and removing of echo tags and
 ml> the long title from the elist... any other updates apparently
 ml> require specific attention being given to requests from the
 ml> moderator(s) to the various backbones that carry their area(s)...

I inquired about it this morning and should have an answer sometime today.

 RN> I routinely post the updates in the echo when I submit them and the
 RN> robot replies.  To wit:

 ml> yes but that doesn't mean that the backbones monitor those...
 ml> indeed, it is pretty visible that they do not ;)

Apparently not.

 ml> as noted in my quote below, the change occured between 2008-Aug-31
 ml> and the next release of the echolist (2008-Sep-30)...

 RN> This is an echo where I post Space Weather and artricles I receive
 RN> from NASA and nothing more.  Note the absense of the word "Fringe".  I
 RN> got away from that stuff years ago.

 ml> i fully understand :)

Then you know why I did it.  (-:

 ml> [trim]

 ml>> since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the
 ml>> BAMA area was

 RN> It should not have appeared that way in the ELIST.

 ml> see my note above... it changed *in the echolist* in Sep 2008 but
 ml> not every where else...

"Everywhere else" being BACKBONE.NA.  I slipped up there.

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 ml>> the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file and
 ml>> on all the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long title as
 ml>> the area's name...

 RN> That's a good question.  I should have the answer in a couple of days.

 ml> that'll take care of at least one .NA distributor but likely won't
 ml> do anything for all the BBSes already carry the area with the old
 ml> title... that being because they likely require manual updating...

I suppose that's something I'll have to endure.  One of our presidents said
"Good luck is what you make and bad luck is what you endure."

 ml> i need to go manually update my fastecho config on my main system
 ml> but i've already adjusted some of the other BBSes hosted here... my
 ml> main system uses the echotags for the area names so it is only
 ml> fastecho that needs updating so that the various .NA files it
 ml> exports have the proper description as it now stands ;)

 ml> [time passes]

 ml> ok, that update has now been done here and my fastecho is exporting
 ml> its .NA files with the new description for the BAMA echotag ;)

Thanks.


Regards,

Roger 
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