Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Apr 09 2021 11:43 am

Hello mark,

Thursday April 08 2021 22:21, you wrote to me:

 ml> that's correct... in fact, at one time, all of the backbones required
 ml> an echo to be listed in the echolist before deciding if the echo would
 ml> be carried on the backbone in question... there were three main ones,
 ml> that i recall... they are/were the NAB, Z1B, and WWB... matt bedynek's
 ml> system interfaced with all three of them to facilitate comms between
 ml> them... not only routed netmail but the echos that were carried on
 ml> them... his system really put in some work in those days :)

I remember all of that quite well and posting around to get my echoes carried on all three backbones.  At least it's not that crazy anymore except with netmail.

-- Sean

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