On Mon Jan-25-2016 20:07, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
      
    ml> 24 Jan 16 08:46, you wrote to Damon A. Getsman:   
      
    RN>> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?   
      
    DAG>> I don't know, but one of the documents I was looking at had things a   
    DAG>> little bit messed up, I suspect.  I've had this echo set up on my   
    DAG>> BBS that way for some time.  What's the proper long title for the   
    DAG>> echo, if I might ask?   Thanks for letting me know, too.   
      
    RN> The long title is BAMA   
      
    ml> that's the short title, aka echotag ;)   
      
   That is the way it reads in the ELIST.  (-:   
      
    RN> and no, I don't know why it was given that name.  I took it over from   
    RN> a guy no longer in Fidonet.   
      
    ml> i remember that...   
      
   How much of it do you remember?   
      
    RN> The area description is Science Research Echo.   
      
    ml> that's the long title, AFAIK... the description in the echolist is   
    ml> those lines that start with DESC which most mail tosser and/or bbs   
    ml> software never imported ;)   
      
   No, nein, nil, nyet, boof!  But it is true that when D'Bridge adds an area,   
   the first thing it looks for is the file AREAS.TXT.  If one doesn't exist, it   
   puts something like Echo auto added and the date,   
      
    RN> Thank you all for the heads-up.   
      
    ml> you're welcome from these parts...   
      
    ml> /EOT   
      
   Good idea and thanks.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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