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Skriven 2012-05-23 18:36:01 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 28918 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Re: Janis defintions...
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ml> ummhummm... the IC echo may be one of those i'm thinking of but i'm
ml> thinking also of that main stream Z2 echo over there... i can't think of
ml> the echotag but you do allow some Z1 members access to it...
 
Might that be ENET.SYSOP?
 
ml> i can't get
ml> into my archives at the moment but bob moravsik's name comes to mind as
ml> being involved... at least his... this was back during the time that john
ml> souvestre was still in fidonet ...
 
That's pre-historic. ;-)
 
ml> we had several backbones... the Z1B,
ml> the NAB and the WWB plus whatever you folk in Z2 were using for your main
ml> distribution over there...
 
WWB certainly is not a Z1-initiative, rather one opposing the monopoly.
 
What I remember from those days is that several countries had a single backbone
system, there were cost sharing organisations (where-upon the Dutch will again
re-hash their silly cost-sharing warz). Basically every region/country was
taking care of its own business.
 
ml> the backbone(s) started carrying some of the
ml> Z2 echos but they were not listed in the echolist... someone in Z1 listed
ml> them with themselves as moderator and the backbone(s) set the precident
ml> of not carrying the one listed in the echolist on their distribution
ml> system but instead configured to carry the Z2 echo(s) in a private
ml> list...
 
There was a guy and he had my permission, if listing was really required, to do
so if that served the purpose of distribution in North America. His name was
Steve ... something ...
 
That didn't go down well with that Mongol from Baltimore who disrupted a
perfectly valid methodology and removed the echotags. That was the signal for
anyone with at least half a brain to start distrusting the echolist as someone
was intervening manually.
 
ml> ...thus the echo(s) in question was not "on the backbone" but was
ml> available from the backbone systems...
 
I think you are right, yes.
 
 \%/@rd

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