Ummmm.... Is there a way to get all the backbone in one merged file? Perhaps a .NC (C for Complete)? I've already come across some echoes that I want to carry, but can't because it's not in my upstreams echo list.

Jay

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Jay Talbot wrote in a message to All:

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Ummmm.... Is there a way to get all the backbone in one merged file? Perhaps a .NC (C for Complete)? I've already come across some echoes
that I want to carry, but can't because it's not in my upstreams
echo list.

Well... Your upstream (me! :-) ) did check and the dozen or so requests you tried to areafix (and got a "not found" message) and I found that they were not
in Backbone.na or backbone.int... the other backbone lists that are still hanging around are for the WWB, PAO and the Z1B and not really viable anywmore (read *REALLY OLD*). I don't know if those BACKBONEs are still even around(???)

They are listed in the backbone.no... but of course that means they sorta don't
exist anymore. The wording kinda makes that ambigous though, because it merely states that the low to non-existent traffic got them on the .no list, but it doesn't really say that they are no longer distributed. Most hubs will go by the
.na or .int list unless there is some kind of special distribution to where the
echo is still moving and available.

As a case in point on this process, when you came in and requested echos a long
while back that were dead-ish but still on the backbone, they ended up getting staged in a queue... with a hope that someday they might just see some traffic.
I finally went through and got rid of all those queued echos because they were no longer listed in backbone.na and they never did see any traffic.

Have you heard of recent traffic in these echos that you were hoping to get hooked up to? Then, that would be a problem. :-(

*Paul*
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Re: Question: Multiple Backbone files

Well... Your upstream (me! :-) ) did check and the dozen or so requests you tried to areafix (and got a "not found" message) and I found that t
in Backbone.na or backbone.int... the other backbone lists that are still hanging around are for the WWB, PAO and the Z1B and not really viable anywmor (read *REALLY OLD*). I don't know if those BACKBONEs are still even around(??

They are listed in the backbone.no... but of course that means they sorta don exist anymore. The wording kinda makes that ambigous though, because it merel states that the low to non-existent traffic got them on the .no list, but it doesn't really say that they are no longer distributed. Most hubs will go by .na or .int list unless there is some kind of special distribution to where t echo is still moving and available.

As a case in point on this process, when you came in and requested echos a lo while back that were dead-ish but still on the backbone, they ended up gettin staged in a queue... with a hope that someday they might just see some traffi I finally went through and got rid of all those queued echos because they wer no longer listed in backbone.na and they never did see any traffic.

Have you heard of recent traffic in these echos that you were hoping to get hooked up to? Then, that would be a problem. :-(

Naw, I figured I'd try and create some traffic on some of those old echos. Maybe I'll submit some changes to echolist or something.

Thanks,
Jay

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Have you heard of recent traffic in these echos that you were hoping
to get hooked up to? Then, that would be a problem. :-(

Naw, I figured I'd try and create some traffic on some of those old
echos. Maybe I'll submit some changes to echolist or something.

errrmmm... the echolist has nothing to do with if an echo exists or not... it also doesn't have a thing to do with if an echo has traffic or not... the echolist is only a list of echos who's moderators have decided to list them in that list... nothing more, nothing less ;)

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