Subj : duran To : Charles Radley From : mark lewis Date : Sat Aug 05 2000 06:49 am -=>> Misha Shiposh wrote to AreaFix <=- MS>> Aa?oNgbgo MS>> e oab, AreaFix . MS>> -space CR> Welcome Misha. in case you weren't able to pick it out, the above quote snip is an areafix disconnect message that was posted in the echo instead of netmail to their hub... in other words, they are disconnecting from this area and turning it off... also need to see what can be done to get hugh to get sb-sysops and sb-solar_rpt back on the Z1B backbone... there's more than one backbone in N.A. and he's evidently on the NAB bone while i'm on the Z1B bone... the bones are connected but Z1B dropped those two echos for lack of traffic some months ago... pretty close to a year ago... if hugh'll make the request in the Z1BACKBONE echo, that should get it back in transit... there may even be an elist problem with one or both of those areas... it needs to be noted also that the Z1B backbone area is Z1BACKBONE while the NAB's area is Z1_BACKBONE... _both_ backbones require requests to carry echo traffic... Z1B cleans its lists of "dead" areas quite frequently while the NAB seems to have just recently instituted a "600-days of no traffic" criteria... anyway, something needs to be done... )\/(ark sysop, Waldo's Place USA * Origin: (1:3634/12) .