On Mon Jan-25-2016 20:07, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:


 ml> 24 Jan 16 08:46, you wrote to Damon A. Getsman:

 RN>> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?

 DAG>> I don't know, but one of the documents I was looking at had things a
 DAG>> little bit messed up, I suspect.  I've had this echo set up on my
 DAG>> BBS that way for some time.  What's the proper long title for the
 DAG>> echo, if I might ask?   Thanks for letting me know, too.

 RN> The long title is BAMA

 ml> that's the short title, aka echotag ;)

That is the way it reads in the ELIST.  (-:

 RN> and no, I don't know why it was given that name.  I took it over from
 RN> a guy no longer in Fidonet.

 ml> i remember that...

How much of it do you remember?

 RN> The area description is Science Research Echo.

 ml> that's the long title, AFAIK... the description in the echolist is
 ml> those lines that start with DESC which most mail tosser and/or bbs
 ml> software never imported ;)

No, nein, nil, nyet, boof!  But it is true that when D'Bridge adds an area, the
first thing it looks for is the file AREAS.TXT.  If one doesn't exist, it puts
something like Echo auto added and the date,

 RN> Thank you all for the heads-up.

 ml> you're welcome from these parts...

 ml> /EOT

Good idea and thanks.


Regards,

Roger 
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