Subj : Z1_BACKBONE Echolist
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Oct 12 2018 04:44 pm

On 2018 Oct 12 02:49:26, you wrote to Dale Shipp:

DS>> Well said -- and if they do not have access to this echo how are they
DS>> supposed to request that their echo get distributed by the NAB?

BR> They are not supposed to in my opinion, yet they have been allowed to
BR> so ...

they are absolutely supposed to do exactly that... that is how echos are
added/removed from the backbone... at one time there were certain requirements
that needed to be met before making the request... i remember them as

 at minimum, two regions wanting the echo in question
 at minimum X posts a month

both of those were dropped when rossC took over the duties of maintaining the
backbone.* files... he took inventory every few years to see which echos had no
traffic in X period and moved those to backbone.not... if their traffic didn't
pick up at some point, they were removed and dropped completely by the
backbone stars...

)\/(ark

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