Subj : Re: echos - a morbid curiosity
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Tue Dec 15 2020 17:22:35

On 15 Dec 2020, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...
 Wv> I used to connect only to areas, that (at least mildly) interest me. I
 Wv> never do
 Wv> send %ALL to AreaFix of my links. I don't need links to all those
 Wv> hundreds of long forgotten dead areas that some systems keep in their
 Wv> config.

As a Sysop, that's completely within your rights. I would guess Hubs are the
only systems that would need to carry everything, although I believe it's
possiible to handle transfer of echos without carrying them on your system.

 Wv> Why do we need this area anyway? Since there already is ASTRONOMY, which
 Wv> at least had a bit of traffic over the years.

Maybe we don't. It could be that these two echos handled different in times
gone by. Maybe one was strictly announcements and the other had discussions.
The problem is that once an echo is created, it exists forever, unless
somehow every system that carries it deletes it.

 Wv>  CP> and if you want, you can get them relisted as "official" echos on the
 Wv>  CP> ELIST.
 Wv> 
 Wv> There is nothing official about the ELIST! ;)
 Wv> 

Notice I put "official" in quotes. I suppose I could have said listed on the
backbone, but that's only Z1 right?

 Wv>  CP> SEEN-BY: 124/5016 153/757 203/0 221/0 1 6 240/1120 1634 1895 8002 800
 Wv>  CP> SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 5006 331/313 335/364 423/120 712/848 2432/390
 Wv>  CP> SEEN-BY: 2452/250 4500/1
 Wv>  CP> @PATH: 153/757 221/6 335/364 240/1120 280/5003 464
 Wv> 
 Wv> This is getting bigger though...
 Wv> 

So it's being seen, if not used.

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