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   Message 1,060 of 1,586   
   mark lewis to Roger Nelson   
   Astronomy (was Re: Weather)   
   23 Jan 16 10:25:06   
   
   23 Jan 16 07:08, you wrote to Damon A. Getsman:   
      
    RN>>> Not allowed.   
      
    DAG>>   Wait wut?   
    DAG>> Isn't this like Odyssea Fringe Research or something like that? I   
    DAG>> thought it was a house for all of the tinfoil theories.   
      
    RN> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?   
      
   most likely from the BACKBONE.NA... the BACKBONE.NA file is created from the   
   initial request to carry the echo on the backbone... the BACKBONE.NA is not,   
   TTBOMK, updated automatically from the echolist... the current BACKBONE.NA   
   file, 2015-Oct-29, contains the line   
      
   BAMA                Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo   
      
   numerous systems use the BACKBONE.NA style files to create all their message   
   areas from... they import their .NA files and the descriptive names, which are   
   taken from the echolist's long title for each area, become the areas' names...   
   this really should be changed a bit so that the echotags are the areas' names   
   and the long titles are used as the areas' descriptions... but that won't help   
   the problem of an echo changing its long title in the echolist and the various   
   .NA files not being updated or even that BBSes can some how update their   
   message areas' descriptions automatically when the long title changes...   
      
      
   since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the BAMA area   
   was   
      
     Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo   
      
   in the current echolist, the long title for the area is   
      
     Science Research Echo   
      
      
   the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file and on all   
   the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long title as the area's   
   name...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... Spiders are high in protein, but they tickle.   
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