Subj : mia moderators? more interesting stats
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Richard Webb
Date : Sun Jul 13 2008 04:30 pm

HI ROss,

Ross Cassell wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

 RW> btw never have seen that response to netmail I sent you.  DOn't know
 RW> where abouts in limbo land it went <g>.

RC> I believe it is sitting on your NC's system, I was checking the
RC> route tables and saw the entry..

IT'll eventually make its way to Janis then.  we had a glitch in routing 
between he and I for awhile but then he fixed something in his configs.

RC> I changed it to go to you via Mark. (Not the original reply but
RC> anything in the future)

Ah that works well.  YOu connect directly with Mark as do I. Where since my nc 
is ion and I"m pots only ...


 RW> I think what you've done with this audit and the new addition to
 RW> backbone file distribution is a plus for fidonet. We're about quality
 RW> rather than quantity imho <g>.

RC> Yes I thought it high time that we as a network offer up a roster of
RC> echoes that matched our times. Nearly all the echoes removed were
RC> left overs that remained in the system from days long gone. The
RC> conventional wisdom that was used regarding these old echoes was
RC> that "they werent hurting anything" by remaining rostered.

Yah, it's still nice to have places for discussing such things as the batch 
language and using old computers for those of us who use them. Yet a lot of 
those were for software and tools nobody uses anymore at all.  E.g. I haven't 
seen anybody running searchlight for years <g>.
THat is, unless sl morphed into something else which is currently in use.

RC> However offerring up dead air just because they are hurting anything
RC> only wastes the time of sysops setting up and maintaining their
RC> boards and of course the end users of those boards.

Yah, especially with the newfangled systems that just turn on everything when 
you set up the board and get a fidonet connection. Lots of disk space allocated 
for nothing, especially if the system which does this uses *.msg format bases 
<g>.

This is one thing I like
about my areafix prg.  If a downlink or I request an echo and the request goes 
to the uplink it isn't automatically created.  IF within a specified period of 
time no messages appear in that echo then the software automatically sends a 
delink request upstream. Quite painless <g>.

EVen with that, before I found it I had some echoes set up here which were 
basically dead air. homepower and some of the nasa bulletins to name two.  TOo 
bad they are as I would have found some interesting reading otherwise <g>.


Regards,
           Richard
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