Subj : Announcement
To   : Michael Grant
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Apr 14 2001 04:50 am

 ml>> won't happen as long as systems are confgured to autoadd what their
 ml>> main feed sends them... a test message will reconnect most everyone...

 MG> I auto-add here... I still notice when an echo's dead, though,
 MG> and routinely de-link those that are dead. It doesn't take a
 MG> lot of effort.

correct... however, when that takes place is anyone's guess when the system(s) 
live in a closet running on autopilot for months and months at a time... not to 
mention the fact that many don't even have monitors or keyboards attached once 
their up and running al la many novell servers...

 ml>> even when echos are dead, not everyone is quite willing to see them
 ml>> for what they are... myself included...

 MG> So remove them based on some pie-in-the sky criteria? What if
 MG> two people are carrying on a conversation in them? Toss those
 MG> people out with the trash?

not suggesting that...

 MG> Why do we need such a rush? Wait six months; if there's zero
 MG> traffic in that time, /then/ remove it. If there's legitimate
 MG> posts in the echo during that time, leave the damn thing
 MG> alone.

the problem is that it is highly possible that somewhere along the line a one 
way feed can be indavertently created and no one really know... the system 
doing the counting is counting what it processes but if it's not getting all 
the traffic due to any of many reasons, then that system can and will 
erroneously report no traffic and dump the echo in question from its configs...

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