25 Mar 16 10:18, you wrote to Al Kaiser:   
      
    AK>> There used to be many of them in the tagline echo, not sure if it's   
    AK>> still active.   
      
    RM> I have not found any reference to it.   
      
    RM> If you find it still somewhere, maybe you could drop me a NM?   
      
   normally, the way fidonet echo linking evolved and was designed to work, you   
   would simply send an areafix request to your feed for an area... if they don't   
   have the area, they forward the request up to their feed and so on until the   
   echo is either found and linked at the top distribution loop or it is not   
   found and a "not found" message is sent back down the line... if the area is   
   found and linked, it is passed back down the line and each system adds it into   
   their feed list and passes it down to the system that sent the request for it   
   and so on until it reaches your system... those intermediate systems may carry   
   the echo to you as a passthru area or they may select to add it to their local   
   message areas...   
      
   that's the way it is supposed to work but many don't understand these things   
   and ignorantly break the system because they don't know... others break the   
   system on purpose because they can... either way, it either works or it is   
   broken because of someone specifically breaking it...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
      
   ... It was just an apple! (Adam to God)   
   ---   
    * Origin:  (1:3634/12.73)