Subj : Re: I think things have gone overboard.
To   : Jack Yates
From : George Roberts
Date : Sun Oct 06 2002 08:13 pm

<*> Jack Yates was spouting off to George Roberts -->

 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?


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

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

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

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

True.  I saw all the messages regarding this issue after I posted mine. So
I guess our discussion is moot at this point. :-)


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