Subj : Let the carnage begin
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Mon Mar 05 2012 09:58 pm

Hello Janis!

05 Mar 12 21:26, you wrote to me:

>> I didnt linger in each echo to proofread the content or its quality,
>> I may hav took noteof knock knock messages or robot posts..

JK> Yahoonews is pretty busy to be deleted though Ross..19 messages in the
JK> last 7 days .. I know it's a 'robot' post, but it's headlines..

I didnt drop yahoonews...

Essentially if an echo had any 2012 traffic, I skipped over..

I dropped YAHOONEWS probably in the prior purge which was probably June/July
2009..

I cannot realistically expect that you or Bob thoroughly followed up on the
prior purges or this one, BACKBONE.DST is a record of echoes that have been
removed since I began this process.

btw, if I followed the criteria used by the original NAB or the Z1B,
backbone.na would have less than 50 echoes and that is not even factoring in
the echolist!!

Why I think the old methodology is too anal for todays Fidonet, I do have a
expectation which is not unreasonable that when a link areafixes "+*" they get
a bunch of echoes with coherent activity..

With that said, if YAHOONEWS revived itself, then someone forgot to tell Mr NAB
Robot, aka moi.. I would have gladly relisted it in BACKBONE.NA, then added it
back into my setup and discovered traffic!!! Looks like the moderator dropped
the ball here, its not like as the NAB ROBOT I am as quiet as a church mouse,
wouldnt you agree?

Soap box mode off, no offense intended.. :-)

==
Ross
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          (Mar 02, 2012 in FIDONEWS)


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