Subj : Astronomy (was Re: Weather)
To   : Roger Nelson
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jan 23 2016 10:25:06


23 Jan 16 07:08, you wrote to Damon A. Getsman:

 RN>>> Not allowed.

 DAG>>   Wait wut?
 DAG>> Isn't this like Odyssea Fringe Research or something like that? I
 DAG>> thought it was a house for all of the tinfoil theories.

 RN> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?

most likely from the BACKBONE.NA... the BACKBONE.NA file is created from the 
initial request to carry the echo on the backbone... the BACKBONE.NA is not, 
TTBOMK, updated automatically from the echolist... the current BACKBONE.NA 
file, 2015-Oct-29, contains the line

BAMA                Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo

numerous systems use the BACKBONE.NA style files to create all their message 
areas from... they import their .NA files and the descriptive names, which are 
taken from the echolist's long title for each area, become the areas' names... 
this really should be changed a bit so that the echotags are the areas' names 
and the long titles are used as the areas' descriptions... but that won't help 
the problem of an echo changing its long title in the echolist and the various 
..NA files not being updated or even that BBSes can some how update their 
message areas' descriptions automatically when the long title changes...


since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the BAMA area 
was

  Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo

in the current echolist, the long title for the area is

  Science Research Echo


the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file and on all 
the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long title as the area's 
name...

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