On Sat Jan-23-2016 10:25, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    ml> 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?   
      
    ml> most likely from the BACKBONE.NA... the BACKBONE.NA file is created   
    ml> from the initial request to carry the echo on the backbone... the   
    ml> BACKBONE.NA is not, TTBOMK, updated automatically from the   
    ml> echolist... the current BACKBONE.NA file, 2015-Oct-29, contains the   
    ml> line   
      
   I see.  However, my main interest in updating the area listing is in the   
   ELIST.  That's where the latest info is.  I don't know who does the updating   
   of BACKBONE.NA, but it is wrong.  I routinely post the updates in the echo   
   when I submit them and the robot replies.  To wit:   
      
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    Echolist Announcement ...   
      
    BAMA   
         Science Research Echo   
               Science Events.   
              Status: Active   
         Origin:       1:3828/7                          Group: FIDO   
         Distribution: Z-1 Backbone   
         Gateways:   
         Language:     English   
         # Nodes: 500          Volume: 115/mo        Rules: BAMA.RUL   
         Flags:  [Has Rules]   
         Notes: /REAl   
         Moderators:   Roger Nelson, 1:3828/7, rjnel@bellsouth.net   
         Last changed: 18-May-2015 by Roger Nelson, 337:1/21, "Roger Nelson"   
       
      
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   The above is an old one, but this hasn't been what you quoted below for many,   
   many years.  This is an echo where I post Space Weather and artricles I   
   receive from NASA and nothing more.  Note the absense of the word "Fringe".  I   
   got away from that stuff years ago.   
      
    ml> BAMA                Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo   
      
    ml> numerous systems use the BACKBONE.NA style files to create all   
    ml> their message areas from... they import their .NA files and the   
    ml> descriptive names, which are taken from the echolist's long title   
    ml> for each area, become the areas' names... this really should be   
    ml> changed a bit so that the echotags are the areas' names and the   
    ml> long titles are used as the areas' descriptions... but that won't   
    ml> help the problem of an echo changing its long title in the echolist   
    ml> and the various .NA files not being updated or even that BBSes can   
    ml> some how update their message areas' descriptions automatically   
    ml> when the long title changes...    
      
      
    ml> since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the   
    ml> BAMA area was   
      
   It should not have appeared that way in the ELIST.   
      
    ml>   Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo   
      
    ml> in the current echolist, the long title for the area is   
      
    ml>   Science Research Echo   
      
      
    ml> the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file   
    ml> and on all the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long   
    ml> title as the area's name...    
      
   That's a good question.  I should have the answer in a couple of days.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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