On Sat Jan-23-2016 19:39, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
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    RN> I don't know who does the updating of BACKBONE.NA, but it is wrong.   
      
    ml> someone on the various backbones does the updating but that   
    ml> updating is apparently only adding and removing of echo tags and   
    ml> the long title from the elist... any other updates apparently   
    ml> require specific attention being given to requests from the   
    ml> moderator(s) to the various backbones that carry their area(s)...   
      
   I inquired about it this morning and should have an answer sometime today.   
      
    RN> I routinely post the updates in the echo when I submit them and the   
    RN> robot replies.  To wit:   
      
    ml> yes but that doesn't mean that the backbones monitor those...   
    ml> indeed, it is pretty visible that they do not ;)   
      
   Apparently not.   
      
    ml> as noted in my quote below, the change occured between 2008-Aug-31   
    ml> 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.   
      
    ml> i fully understand :)   
      
   Then you know why I did it.  (-:   
      
    ml> [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.   
      
    ml> see my note above... it changed *in the echolist* in Sep 2008 but   
    ml> not every where else...   
      
   "Everywhere else" being BACKBONE.NA.  I slipped up there.   
      
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    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.   
      
    ml> that'll take care of at least one .NA distributor but likely won't   
    ml> do anything for all the BBSes already carry the area with the old   
    ml> title... that being because they likely require manual updating...   
      
   I suppose that's something I'll have to endure.  One of our presidents said   
   "Good luck is what you make and bad luck is what you endure."   
      
    ml> i need to go manually update my fastecho config on my main system   
    ml> but i've already adjusted some of the other BBSes hosted here... my   
    ml> main system uses the echotags for the area names so it is only   
    ml> fastecho that needs updating so that the various .NA files it   
    ml> exports have the proper description as it now stands ;)   
      
    ml> [time passes]   
      
    ml> ok, that update has now been done here and my fastecho is exporting   
    ml> its .NA files with the new description for the BAMA echotag ;)   
      
   Thanks.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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