Subj : FYI
To   : FOXY FERGUSON
From : Thom LaCosta
Date : Sat Sep 29 2001 08:06 am

FOXY FERGUSON wrote in a message to THOM LACOSTA:

 FF> Hi, Thom!

 FF> Just out of curiosity, I did a little investigating of the Elist,
 FF> using the August issue. 

I've always found it interesting that the echolist is used in so many ways

 FF> It had 1,240 unique echotags. Less that
 FF> half are listed as officially carried by any Fidonet backbone. 

Perhaps that's why when the Ghods of Fidonet start telling me that according to 
Fido...yatta, yatta, yatta...I keep on reminding them that the echolist isn't a 
part of Fidonet.

 FF> Congrats on running a service for more than just Fidonet.

Thanks...

Now a funny story....I once head of an echo tag that I really wanted to 
carry...and no matter how many times I tried to get it, nothing happened.

So, I figured that I'd list the echo with Mike Fuchs so those pesky 
distribution systems would know it was real, and then they would let me have 
it.

And then I got the message telling me that the tag was in use...so I broke down 
and read the echolist...and found out that my brilliant idea had already been 
used by one of the Othernets. (g)  It was a good serving of Humble Pie...taught 
me to read.


Thom LaCosta
baltimoremd@baltimoremd.com
http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/ 
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