Subj : Announcement
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Steven Horn
Date : Mon Apr 16 2001 05:20 pm

Andrea Santos (1:135/382) wrote to Steven Horn at 06:51 on 16 Apr 2001:

 AS> At that point, if you wanted an echo removed from distribution, it
 AS> was incumbent on you to request its removal via both backbones. 
 AS> Obviously, if you didn't do that, the echo wasn't going to be
 AS> removed from Z1B distribution.

As a lawyer, I'm not about to accept the proposition that "it's incumbent on me 
to request its removal via both backbones".  Neither my predecessor or me asked 
the Z1B to carry this echo and the Z1B could remove it when the NAB was advised 
to remove it.  After all, they only distributed it as a result of splitting 
from the NAB. 

 AS> They did.  As simple a means as you have with the NAB.  You post a
 AS> message in their *backbone echos and request removal.  The reason
 AS> it became "difficult" for you is you didn't know you had to do
 AS> this.  I'm sure you also could have Netmailed the request to a Z1B
 AS> hub who would have forwarded it into the Z1BACKBONE echo if you
 AS> didn't wish to carry that echo.  If you still moderate any
 AS> backboned echos, you probably should carry both echos.

The first Z1B hub I netmailed told me he was getting out of the hubbing 
business so I still had to netmail John Souvestre.  In any case, this was never 
a Z1B echo and was only carried by the Z1B because they had split from the NAB. 
 That being the case, the announcement to the NAB should have been enough to 
end the Z1B's involvement with the echo.

Take care,

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