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Skriven 2005-03-31 13:44:21 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 9300 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
Ärende: Echomail Coordinators
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Hello mark.

31 Mar 33 14:09, you wrote to me:


 ml>>> FWIW: i see thomas kenny listed as the echolist coordinator in
 ml>>> that 1987 nodelist... i'm pretty sure that there weren't the
 ml>>> problems with echo hijacking and such that far back... looks like
 ml>>> it was designed to be a centralised list of echos so that folk
 ml>>> would know what was available and where to pull it from... that
 ml>>> would have been very important back in those days of no backbone
 ml>>> and each echo actually originating from the moderator's system ;)

 RW>> At one time, the 'echolist' was published in Fidonews.

 ml> i forgot that... i should have remembered it since you posted it to
 ml> me recently...

I forgot to mention that there was no software available at the time to
robotize the echolist. Kenny did mention it in his article, but I forget
the name of the software being developed at the time.

 RW>> When it got to be more than the publication could handle, it
 RW>> was no longer published.

 ml> hehe, that's kinda funny... "more than the publication could
 ml> handle" ;)

About as funny as publishing the nodelist every week. :o)
When that got to be too big, they stoppped that practice too.

 ml> since it is simply a page formatted document and formfeed or
 ml> greenbar paper was the norm of the day, i can only see
 ml> "too many pages" complaints being the real reason it was dropped
 ml> from publication...

No, there was a genuine concern over the size of the Fidonews file,
just as there was a concern over the size of the nodelist file. Remember
than transporting big files via slow modems was to be avoided at all
costs, thus the invention of the nodediff files.

 RW>>   Thomas Kenny
 RW>>   IFNA node 107/316

 RW>>                   The First Echomail Conference List

 RW>>   Echomail Conference List,  Issue 1,  Number 1 (1/13/87)
 RW>> Copyright (c)  1986,  Thomas Kenny.  All rights reserved

 ml> ahh... there's a 1986 copyright and this header is from the Jan
 ml> 1987 issue... so it appears that it was started sometime in 1986...
 ml> i'll just need to go back thru those snoozes to see if i can locate
 ml> the first publishing of the echolist in them...

Also look for older versions of FTS-0004 other than 3.31 ... I've found
that to be copyrighted in Dec of 87 with mention of RECs in it. There
had to be an earlier version with that reference in it.


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