Subj : echo descriptions in BACKBONE.* files
To   : mark lewis
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Mon Apr 01 2002 06:49 am

 > * Original message posted in: z1backbone.
 > * Crossposted in: z1backbone, z1_backbone, z1_echomail, zec, wwb_sysop.
 >
 >
 > color me (slightly?) confused...

      What shade is that?

 >
 > recently someone asked about how to alter the description line of their
 > echo
 > in the BACKBONE.* lists... just recently, i was checking my own and
 > noticed
 > that the old description for a couple of them was still in place...
 > checking
 > my moderator update files and the elist, those descriptions were current
 > and
 > correct...
 >
 > my confusion stems from some of the replies that seemed to indicate
 > somesoftware automation was performed to glean the description line from
 > the elist
 > when creating and maintaining the BACKBONE.* lists... several of those
 > replies
 > were along the lines of "just change the entry in the elist" to "you've
 > just
 > done it"... hunh? automation or no?
 >
 > if there are no robots or software automation in place, why pretend that
 > there is/are by certain actions, activities, and attitudes?

      A properly trained robot can be told to do something different,
manually.  As far as the NAB robot goes, it's told to only do specific things 
automagically, and when something out of the ordinary is asked of it, it is to 
stop and holler for instructions.

      You want a change, just ask, it's really quite simple.





                       .....Bob

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