Subj : BACKBONE.NO
To : mark lewis
From : Renato Zambon
Date : Wed Sep 19 2007 07:48 pm
ml> i understand... however, my point is that even posting in those
ml> areas only removes them from those backbone lists... there is
ml> no real way to have them removed from all bbs' in fidonet...
Yes, this is true...
ml> there was a method available but not all software supported it and
ml> many operators wouldn't enable it... this method allowed a "top" or
ml> "central" "authority" to send areafix messages creating new areas as
ml> well as renaming them and/or removing them... if everyone enabled
ml> these cabailities in their software, then there wouldn't be all the
ml> dead and empty echos still floating around... the problem is/was
ml> getting folk to relenquish some control of their system and allow
ml> others to manage certain parts of it...
Always used FastEcho here also :-) autocreate to some nodes ok,
but never activate that option to allow delete, delete manually
only.
