On 2017 Aug 23 11:18:58, you wrote to me:   
      
    >> BACKBONE.NA is definitely being maintained... rossC was doing it before   
    >> he left fidonet and benR is doing it now... the last BACKBONE.NA was   
    >> sent out 18 Mar 2017 not long after the switchover from rossC to   
    >> benR... that's also about the same time that i was assigned as r18c and   
    >> also brought on as the third backbone star...   
      
    VC> That the date I have but there are diffs against my other list also   
    VC> backbone.na used to come out on a regular basis not 5+ months etc   
      
   yeah, that was back when things were being run a lot tighter... with the   
   network getting smaller and smaller, the backbone decided to loosen some of   
   the requirements for carrying an echo... with that, the backbone.na is/was   
   only updated when echos were removed or added... most of the time, removal was   
   after several years of no traffic... it was a manual process, anyway...   
      
    VC> however that does not resolve the issue I have with a down link not   
    VC> being able to connect to a specific echo area.   
      
   this is true... i only wanted to point out that backbone.na is maintained...   
   just not as often as it used to be...   
      
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