-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 04-07-04  21:07 <=-

Yes, I know it's been a while...  Life (with a capital L) interfered.

 ML> trying to tie those areanumbers to the area name is the problem... and
 ML> then you have those systems that give the area an "english spoken area
 ML> name" instead of the areatag so that their users will know what the
 ML> area is about... so that leaves us with something like this...
 ML> area# 42 == BLUEWAVE == Bluewave Offline Mail Reader Discussions

Yes, I know.  Over the years, I've been on a LOT of different systems. 
I not only have learned the proper Fidonet echotags for all my usual
echos, I've had to learn how to interpret some sysops' description names
in order to find the echos I was looking for...  made even more
interesting when the space allotted for the name wasn't quite long
enough for the entire name so it would get truncated.

 ML> elebbs is supposedly a dropin replacement for RA... however, its not
 ML> up to the latest RA beta's specs in this regard... at least not to my
 ML> knowledge... 

I don't know anything about it other than having used it as a user for a
few years, right around Y2K, maybe until 2001 or 2...

ttyl       neb

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