23 Jan 16 14:24, you wrote to me:   
      
    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   
      
    RN> I see.  However, my main interest in updating the area listing is in   
    RN> the ELIST.  That's where the latest info is.   
      
   agreed...   
      
    RN> I don't know who does the updating of BACKBONE.NA, but it is wrong.   
      
   someone on the various backbones does the updating but that updating is   
   apparently only adding and removing of echo tags and the long title from the   
   elist... any other updates apparently require specific attention being given   
   to requests from the moderator(s) to the various backbones that carry their   
   area(s)...   
      
    RN> I routinely post the updates in the echo when I submit them and the   
    RN> robot replies.  To wit:   
      
   yes but that doesn't mean that the backbones monitor those... indeed, it is   
   pretty visible that they do not ;)   
      
    RN> The above is an old one, but this hasn't been what you quoted below for   
    RN> many, many years.   
      
   as noted in my quote below, the change occured between 2008-Aug-31 and the   
   next release of the echolist (2008-Sep-30)...   
      
    RN> This is an echo where I post Space Weather and artricles I receive   
    RN> from NASA and nothing more.  Note the absense of the word "Fringe".  I   
    RN> got away from that stuff years ago.   
      
   i fully understand :)   
      
   [trim]   
      
    ml>> since at least 1997-Sep-01 up to 2008-Aug-31 the long title for the   
    ml>> BAMA area was   
      
    RN> It should not have appeared that way in the ELIST.   
      
   see my note above... it changed *in the echolist* in Sep 2008 but not every   
   where else...   
      
   [edit] now that i think about it, i have seen things similar to this having   
   been posted in old fidonews editions... haven't seen anything similar in many   
   many years but a lot has changed since then, too O:) [/edit]   
      
   [trim]   
      
    ml>> the question now is how to get it updated in the BACKBONE.NA file and   
    ml>> on all the BBSes that carry the area that are using the long title as   
    ml>> the area's name...   
      
    RN> That's a good question.  I should have the answer in a couple of days.   
      
   that'll take care of at least one .NA distributor but likely won't do anything   
   for all the BBSes already carry the area with the old title... that being   
   because they likely require manual updating... i need to go manually update my   
   fastecho config on my main system but i've already adjusted some of the other   
   BBSes hosted here... my main system uses the echotags for the area names so it   
   is only fastecho that needs updating so that the various .NA files it exports   
   have the proper description as it now stands ;)   
      
   [time passes]   
      
   ok, that update has now been done here and my fastecho is exporting its .NA   
   files with the new description for the BAMA echotag ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... Oh - ah, I'm going to blow it up.   
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