Subj : Science News To : Roger Nelson From : mark lewis Date : Thu Jun 30 2016 09:53:26 30 Jun 16 07:26, you wrote to me: ml>>>> you've been told that the echo's name has been changed for several ml>>>> years, tim... TR>>> No...I haven't been! ml>> i told you at least once and i know that roger has said it more than ml>> twice... there was even a discussion about how the old name was still ml>> appearing instead of the new one... RN> I fixed that some time ago. I was a little surprised that the old RN> name was still in use and sent the correction to Ross, who changed it RN> that day. It had been corrected in BACKBONE.NA when I chenged the RN> theme, but not in all distributions. Ross is in charge of the RN> AREAS.TXT file and that's where the old name was. yup... the problem, as noted previously, is that some sysops build their message bases from the backbone.na list but there is no way for their software to update their areas from a new copy of the file... once built, updating the titles and descriptions is a manual thing and there's no notification of differences between the new file and the old one... ml>>>> your sysop used an old list when they created the areas on their ml>>>> bbs... your sysop needs to rename the echo on their system so they ml>>>> have the proper name on it... your sysop is the one that needs to ml>>>> FixTheirStuff... RN> That's what I told him. i remember... TR>>> Whatever. Since `discussion' isn't allowed in this echo I'll not be TR>>> posting in here much. ml>> we'll see if your sysop responds to my netmail about fixing the ml>> echo's name/description on his system ;) RN> I wrote him, too. I haven't received a reply yet. i sent my netmail direct and then followed up with a li'l "have you?" note in the test echo where he had recently posted... he did respond to both but apparently found the netmail after he read my post in the test echo... his response to me was that on his next day off, he would fix the title of the BAMA area on his system to use the new title and description... ml>> ... Bug: 1. Programmer's term for a feature. RN> ... Bug: 2. An elusive creature living in a program which makes it RN> incorrect. )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey .... Bug: 3. A known design feature that doesn't work properly. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .