Subj : Announcement
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Steven Horn
Date : Sun Apr 15 2001 05:35 pm

Andrea Santos (1:135/382) wrote to Steven Horn at 07:48 on 14 Apr 2001:

 AS> Saw that but it doesn't answer the above question about being on
 AS> the NAB before the Z1B was formed.

It would have been.  I inherited the echo.

 AS> Unless otherwise requested, when the backbones split, the Z1B
 AS> provided the same echos as the NAB.  It was ASSumed you wanted a
 AS> publicly available echo distributed through both.  99% of the time,
 AS> this assumption was correct, elsewise, you were cutting out 1/2 of
 AS> Zone 1 from receiving your echo.

 AS> Each backbone's rules required that the Moderator come into the
 AS> *backbone echo in question and request its removal for that to
 AS> happen. If you didn't do that, your echo would remain.

 AS> FWIW, this is the one major hassle with having the 2 distribution
 AS> systems.  Would be much simpler if Moderators could go to one place
 AS> to get echos added/removed.

All of which makes sense but it would have been nice for the Z1B to provide a 
simple means for removing the echo.  Going to one place might have been too 
much but a simple procedure would have been helpful.

Take care,

Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT and CAN_SYSLAW 
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