Subj : BACKBONE.NO
To   : mark lewis
From : Renato Zambon
Date : Wed Sep 19 2007 07:48 pm

 ml> i understand... however, my point is that even posting in those
 ml> areas only removes them from those backbone lists... there is
 ml> no real way to have them removed from all bbs' in fidonet...

Yes, this is true...

 ml> there was a method available but not all software supported it and
 ml> many operators wouldn't enable it... this method allowed a "top" or
 ml> "central" "authority" to send areafix messages creating new areas as
 ml> well as renaming them and/or removing them... if everyone enabled
 ml> these cabailities in their software, then there wouldn't be all the
 ml> dead and empty echos still floating around... the problem is/was
 ml> getting folk to relenquish some control of their system and allow
 ml> others to manage certain parts of it...

Always used FastEcho here also  :-)  autocreate to some nodes ok,
but never activate that option to allow delete, delete manually
only.

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