Subj : BACKBONE.NO
To : Renato Zambon
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Sep 19 2007 02:16 pm
RZ>> 4DOS, ITALIANO and USR_MODEMS were required to remove from
ml> sadly, an echolist entry doesn't count :( there was nothing
ml> posted in those echos or in any of the available mail backbone
ml> echos like this one and the one for the wwb...
RZ> A request to remove was sent at the same time to z1_backbone,
RZ> z1backbone (seems it doesn't exist anymore),
right, it went the way of the dodo bird when others left the network and/or
quieted down and found something else to stir up...
RZ> wwb_tech and the echolist. These 3 echos (like many others) had
RZ> zero msgs in more than one year.
i understand... however, my point is that even posting in those areas only
removes them from those backbone lists... there is no real way to have them
removed from all bbs' in fidonet...
there was a method available but not all software supported it and many
operators wouldn't enable it... this method allowed a "top" or "central"
"authority" to send areafix messages creating new areas as well as renaming
them and/or removing them... if everyone enabled these cabailities in their
software, then there wouldn't be all the dead and empty echos still floating
around... the problem is/was getting folk to relenquish some control of their
system and allow others to manage certain parts of it...
