Re: Re: empty echos like walking through an abandoned mansion
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to nathanael culver on Mon Mar 18 2019 08:56 am

 > Good luck with that. Maybe you can get some areas removed from the NA
 > backbone,
 > and related lists. But that doesn't mean they are automatically removed from
 > systems around the world...

If a BBS wants to keep an outdated echo, I say "have at it". 
However, there
has to be a way, especially for new folks, to know that "Hey, this echo hasn't
seen traffic in 3  years - so it may be dead".

An idea for a "next generation" backbone.na file is perhaps a field or two
added for statistics like volume and last activity.  That way someone looking
at it could easily see that this echo last saw activity on 3-10-2019 so it is
probably still active, etc.
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