24 Jan 16 08:41, you wrote to Alan Ianson:   
      
    ML>> BAMA Odyssey Fringe Science Research Echo   
      
    AI>> My BBS uses this description for the area, and Bama for the short   
    AI>> description. If the description needs updating I'll gladly do it, I   
    AI>> just need to know what would be better.   
      
    RN> That info is dated.  All current descriptions about echo areas are in   
    RN> the Echolist.  I had no idea the BACKBONE.NA was different, since I   
    RN> never used its descriptions.   
      
   many folks, myself included, configured our mail tosser to import the .NA   
   files to update the long titles for automatically added areas... the short   
   titles aka echotags already exist in the configurations... i did the import   
   thing for years before i switched to using the echotags to display to my   
   users... that mainly because many long descriptions were longer than the 40   
   characters allowed by my software... i figured that the echotag was much   
   better than umpteen areas all saying something like   
      
     the official fidonet support echo for bl   
      
   )   
      
   so now i only have to go correct those that say   
      
     automatically added area   
      
   which are not many these days O:)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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