Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : Nick Andre
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Apr 09 2021 05:48 pm

Hello Nick!

** On Thursday 08.04.21 - 19:08, your wrote to me:

 NA> I really enjoyed submitting a D'Bridge release several
 NA> years ago to the NAB which Janis then rudely rejected based
 NA> on a false-positive from ClamAV and Ben Ritchey then
 NA> happily chimed in with..

But you digress!  ;)

 NA> What utter nonsense that we must "Elist" an echo or have a
 NA> "NAB" pick it up. Anyone can start an echo in 2021,
 NA> announce it anywhere and within hours someone is gonna pick
 NA> it up... lather rince repeat... minutes in the case of
 NA> Wilfred van Velzen - I'll fart and within minutes he'll try
 NA> to areafix what I had for dinner.

The ELIST doubles as a kind of creation and listing system. Once  
an echo is created, the resultant listings provide a kind of  
catalog of available echos, in one place, where anyone could  
"shop" and see what's available.

The sorted and unsorted lists in the Fidogazette are pretty good  
too.

The only other thing lacking from a user's pov is *where* an  
echo could be requested.

 NA> One doesn't need permission from "echo movers" and we don't
 NA> need a "backbone".

It is good to know that permission per se is not required, and  
the backbone is essentially the network of participating systems  
or nodes.

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