Subj : Echo Rules
To   : Reverend Shaft
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 05:56 pm

Hello Reverend!

Monday September 09 2024 21:58, you wrote to All:

 > General Inquiry

 > Is there a centralized place that has the rules for each echo FidoNet
 > carries?

 > I remember this being an issue in the '90s, specifically not knowing
 > which echoes allowed aliases and which didn't.

 > If there isn't, I'd be more than happy to compile that, if only I knew
 > exactly where to look.


Look at file area ECHOLIST and the monthly (and sometimes daily if an new echo
added) for the files :

ELSTyymm.ZIP  for the monthly issued around 1/2 of the month, where yy = year,
mm = month.


Occasional daily ELyymmdd.ZIP (dd = day #) content same as ELSTyymm.ZIP but as
and when needed - would update the previous monthly archive for rules,
descriptions and report type txt files ending in .NA and .RPT.

I send these out to around 30 different systems.

These archives contain a folder for all of the current rules and a folder for
all of the Echo descriptions sub divided by /descriptions/NETWORK/ECHO

All rules stored in folder rules.
Archive also contains current copies of ELIST.RPT, ELIST.NA and for ALL
fido echos BACKBONE.NA and BACKBONE.RPT.

Vincent

Elist maintainer.

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