Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Thu Apr 15 2021 01:27 pm

Hello Dale!

Thursday April 15 2021 00:19, you wrote to me:

 VC>> I have put an idea out to Janis to add all of the available
 VC>> (Fido) echo such  as hosted on her system to add in to elist with
 VC>> myself as elistmaint as the mod with what ever little info is
 VC>> available to use then allow any interested parties to take over
 VC>> the 'mod' from me for each one.

 > There are echos for which the moderator intentionally does not want
 > the echo included in the Elist.  It would be a serious mistake for
 > anyone to list them, claiming to be the moderator.

The use of mod as elistmaint is to allow any moderators to take over specific
echos such as any current acting moderator for any but many I suspect do not
bother with a formal moderatorship.

Hence the reason to open the idea for all as the formal list of all echos has
vanished.

Initially by temporary acting as echo controller (it is not really acting as a
moderator) it will provide a one shop stop for a listing for all available
areas in the way that BACKBONE.NA did some years ago.

I have no wish whatsoever of acting as a moderator for echo's other than the 2
or 3 I am doing so currently and even then would be happy for another to take
these over for anyone that is involved in this areas.


 VC>> Note there is no reason why the elist system cannot be used for
 VC>> the other networks out there as the program already (generally)
 VC>> supports this. Just need some minor changes to output the
 VC>> reporting files in the individual reporting files to match up.



 > The Elist has never been a Fidonet only listing.  There were always
 > echos from other networks included.  When did that change?

The elist system as is, supports other networks although it might require some
changes to support reporting to other files other than ELIST.RPT, ELIST.NA and
ELIST.NO that will relate to those networks specifically.

As of today I have not received any request to all such other networks so the
current reporting for only covers Fidonet.


Vincent

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