Subj : Re: Observations of the current ELIST.RPT
To   : mark lewis
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Jan 08 2022 09:36 pm

Hi mark,

On 2022-01-08 15:28:24, you wrote to me:

 WV>> And if you have "None", why is that area in the Echolist!? ;-)

 ml> the echolist is not a list of active areas in fidonet... it is a list of
 ml> echotags that may be available to be linked to in any FTN... if an echotag
 ml> says its disctibution is "none" then it sounds like it is, quite simply,
 ml> not distributed... there's nothing wrong with that...

An echomail area that is not distributed is a local area. There's no need to tell the world about it through the elist...

Bye, Wilfred.

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