Subj : Observations of the current ELIST.RPT
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jan 08 2022 03:54 pm
On 2022 Jan 08 21:36:40, you wrote to me:
WV>>> And if you have "None", why is that area in the Echolist!? ;-)
ml>> the echolist is not a list of active areas in fidonet... it is a list
ml>> of echotags that may be available to be linked to in any FTN... if an
ml>> echotag says its disctibution is "none" then it sounds like it is,
ml>> quite simply, not distributed... there's nothing wrong with that...
WV> An echomail area that is not distributed is a local area. There's no need
WV> to tell the world about it through the elist...
that's your opinion, sir... i can think of several reasons to have an echotag listed in the echolist without it being distributed... if you can't think of any reasons, perhaps you need to review the last 30+ years of exactly why the echolist existed and what it was used for?
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