Subj : WWB
To : August Abolins
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Sat Apr 10 2021 09:20 am
09 Apr 21 17:20, August Abolins wrote to mark lewis:
AA> Hello mark!
AA> ** On Thursday 08.04.21 - 22:21, you wrote to Sean Dennis:
ml>> ...at one time, all of the backbones required an echo to be
ml>> listed in the echolist before deciding if the echo would be
ml>> carried on the backbone in question... there were three
ml>> main ones, that i recall... they are/were the NAB, Z1B, and
ml>> WWB...
AA> I found that part very confusing back in the day. I started and
AA> moderated at least one echo IEEE for a while.
ml>> matt bedynek's system interfaced with all three of
ml>> them to facilitate comms between them... not only routed
ml>> netmail but the echos that were carried on them... his
ml>> system really put in some work in those days :)
AA> I don't remember that detail. What did the letters in "WWB"
AA> stand for?
"World Wide Backbone". You can still find some old lists in my bbs, freq WWB-*.*
The list 'WWB-FIN.222' has been generated every month since.. Well, forever. :)
