Subj : I think things have gone overboard.
To   : George Roberts
From : Jack Yates
Date : Sun Oct 06 2002 10:20 am

 GR> Pardon me if I'm wrong on this, but Dale is a Distro Hub, correct?  I
 GR> don't have a problem with Dale removing any particular echo from his
 GR> BBS, but I feel that unless the whole backbone removes an echo, ALL
 GR> hubs should be required to carry that echo for downlinks.  And I
 GR> believe that is part of the rules of each of the backbones, no?


Without getting into the rules of each and every distro system, or 
personalities, I would say that any distro hub that removes an echo from 
distribution is no longer a distro hub.

Further, I would say that any distro system that discontinues the distribution 
of an echo, whether as an agreed action among all the members of the system or 
by virtue of an action of *one* of the members is no longer a distro system.

i.e.:  If X, Y and Z are a distributiuon system and an echo is not being 
distributed by X, Y and Z because Y has refused to distribute it, the while 
system is broken.


I remind you that this, however, appears to not be the case.




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