Subj : Observations of the current ELIST.RPT
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Jan 09 2022 08:52 am
On 2022 Jan 09 14:04:52, you wrote to me:
WV> Hi mark,
WV> On 2022-01-09 06:10:48, you wrote to August Abolins:
ml>> fido410 speaks of the format of the echolist... it even mentions one
ml>> reason why a non-distributed echotag may be listed...
WV> If you mean "Volume 4, Number 10 9 March 1987", I don't see it.
you don't see what? that publication or the reason why a non-distributed echotag may be listed?
WV> Maybe you are mistaken about the exact number?
nope... did you not read the bottom of page 8 of that publication???
[spoon feeding mode]
When the "contact" is listed in parentheses it means that the
conference is NOT currently active but the person listed is
interested in STARTING a conference on the topic.
[/spoon feeding mode]
ml>> somewhere around here i have other documents that speak of
ml>> maintaining
ml>> echolist entries of echotags for the purposes of showing ownership and
ml>> maintaining that ownership... i'm just the messenger so please don't
ml>> anyone start on me about that... it is what it is... the support areas
ml>> for WORDSTAR, WORDPERFECT, NOVELL, and others come to mind...
WV> These areas are not in the current ELIST, for a good reaseon: because they
WV> are no longer active. There is no need to list those areas for ever with
WV> "Distribution: None". If anyone is interested in that historic information
WV> they can find out by looking at old elists...
you are totally glossing over their status when they did exist... do we really need to spoon feed this stuff to you?
)\/(ark
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