Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : Vincent Coen
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Apr 09 2021 06:10 pm

Hello Vincent!

** On Friday 09.04.21 - 22:26, your wrote to Sean Dennis:

 >> 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.

 VC> The primary issue I see (and did then) was that there is no
 VC> uniform place / file etc where you can see what Echo's are
 VC> available.

The Elist bot is pretty good. Users can be steered to grab a  
copy of the ELSTxxxx.xip file on their preferred fido BBS, or  
they can take a look inside a recent Fidogazette for the sorted/ 
unsorted table.

It would be neat if there was a kind of ECHOFIND service (akin  
to FILEFIND) that would return matches for a specific topic that  
people are looking for.

 VC> Now Janis seems to keep the most as far as I can tell and I
 VC> get most of them but that depends on what my downlinks
 VC> request from my system and here all are held i.e., none are
 VC> on passthru (as far as I know that is).

There is nothing else comparable to the list in Janis'  
Fidogazette.

Good to hear that your system can process them all if needed.

 VC> This way any downlink can connect and request a RESCAN for
 VC> echo area and some do just that.

%RESCAN is a handy feature.

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