Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Apr 17 2021 01:20 pm

  Re: PLEASE ADD status
  By: August Abolins to Dale Shipp on Fri Apr 16 2021 10:11:00


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

 AA> I wasn't aware that the Elist included othernets. I don't think
 AA> I ever saw an elist publication that included anything except
 AA> Fidonet-only when Ben Ritchey produced files.

that is most likely because ben's list was started clean with no data from the previous echolist...

 AA> Can you point to a set that had some othernets?

any echolist from before ben took it over, really... my site currently has echolists going back as far as 1997... adrian walker was the maintainer at that time... unfortunately looking at a few of those old lists, i do not see
the network field... i think that was added later and possibly by adrian...


ftp://sestar.synchro.net/file.dist.net/ECHOLIST/00index.html%3Fsort=time


ELIST808.ZIP (Aug 1998) is the first one i see with the "GROUP" field where the network code (eg: FIDO, CFN, FMLY, ADS, etc) is listed...


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