Subj : Observations of the current ELIST.RPT
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Jan 09 2022 12:21 pm
On 2022 Jan 09 17:46:26, you wrote to me:
WV>>> Maybe you are mistaken about the exact number?
ml>> nope... did you not read the bottom of page 8 of that publication???
ml>> When the "contact" is listed in parentheses it means that the
ml>> conference is NOT currently active but the person listed is
ml>> interested in STARTING a conference on the topic.
WV> Maybe that was a good idea in 1987, when Fidonet was totally different. But
WV> it is not current practice for the ELIST.
i said it was one reason for listing non-distributed echotags... i didn't say anything about it being current practise... other reasons are for ownership and archives... there are others, as well... whether you agree with them or not is another matter...
)\/(ark
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