Subj : Tiers
To   : Carl Austin Bennett
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sat Jul 14 2001 11:26 am

On (14 Jul 01) Carl Austin Bennett wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Carl,


 BS>> available.  There's few, if any, echos listed in any other lists
 BS> that aren't also listed in BACKBONE.NA.

 FV> But there could be some? :-)

 CA> Apart from the ASKACOP2 saga (dropped due to abuse - moderator was
 CA> threatening civil and criminal prosecution against various echo
 CA> participants) yes, there are many echos originating mostly in Z2 which
 CA> aren't in the backbone.na files.

 CA> Try ftp://glonet.co.nz and grab any files with names like WWB*.* for
 CA> an idea of what's involved; most of the non-English-language echos
 CA> appear in these lists as purely regional WWB conferences but aren't in
 CA> echolist or backbone.na

 CA> The split exists due to language, with Z1 using English and Z2
 CA> multilingual.

 CA> One key exception: French-Canadian traffic was traditionally
 CA> distributed by "othernet" methods (101: Francomedia, 440: Canadamedia,
 CA> both now defunct).

Ok. Still, the backbone.ww, as I mentioned, shows most of the echos
carried by the other backbones in Z1.


Regards,

 Frank

http://texoma.net/~flv
http://bise.tzo.com/r19

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