Subj : Heads Up
To : All
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Thu Jul 10 2008 08:27 pm
Hello All!
I am auditting the BACKBONE files again...
I have a ways to go, here is a synopsis of what I have found so far:
As most of you know, We reinstated the BACKBONE.NO file, which was a tool we
used a long time ago, any echo that found its way into the BACKBONE.NO file had
no traffic for a considerable amount of time, but was still being made
available. The last time an auditting took place, the BACKBONE.NO file
contained more echoes than the BACKBONE.NA file and it does..
Indeed, 270 Echoes are in the original BACKBONE.NO
Compared to 215 Echoes in the current BACKBONE.NA
So far out of the current roster of echoes in BACKBONE.NA
46 of them will be moved into a new BACKBONE.NO
The Good News is that out of the original BACKBONE.NO
So far I have identified at least 19 echoes that will move back into the
BACKBONE.NA, this number might go up as I am only half-way through it.
The Majority of these 19 echoes appear to have been ressurections done by Allen
Prunty, as they appear to have gated newsgroup content in them, personally I do
not see that as a plus.
More bad news is, echoes still dead that are in the current BACKBONE.NO are
going to be destroyed, they will be removed from 1:123/500, there is no reason
to carry echoes that are destined to remain big fat zeroes, forcing BBS sysops
to setup message areas that their users can never benifit from.
Furthermore, 1:123/500 will be phasing out the foreign language echoes, most of
them are zeroes to begin with.
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