Hello Alan,

On 17.03.19, you wrote:

 AI> Good stuff. Once the area is elisted you'll have to send a message in the
 AI> Z1_BACKBONE area and request the area be listed in the backbone.na file
 AI> to get the area listed there.


This is maybe another one of those things that needs a review, and better
automation? Ultimately, echo existance relies on *acceptance* by a human. 
The backbone.na stuff looks restricted to North America only(?).  How do
echoes get "created" outside North America?  Is it just by a
friendly email to a ZEC, REC or NEC, and then only if one feels like it?

I also noticed that the only entries in the NL that actually use the ZEC
REC NEC flags is the Z2 segment!   No one in Z1 is using those.  Hence, it
is hard for the average sysop to know where to find a (full) feed.


 AI> I don't recall who started the area originally. There are a lot of
 AI> echolist archives at filegate.net that go back a long way. I'm not sure
 AI> if the area was ever echolisted though so the info may or may not be in
 AI> there.

filegate.net does not seem to have an archive for echoes (anymore?) Would
they be hiding somewhere else?






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