Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : August Abolins
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Sat Apr 17 2021 01:08 pm

Hello August!

Saturday April 17 2021 07:03, you wrote to Dale Shipp:

 > Hello Dale!

 > ** On Saturday 17.04.21 - 01:06, you wrote:

 AA>>> Can you point to a set that had some othernets?

 DS>> Sorry, I cannot find a reference to an index of old
 DS>> echolists.  In this packet I see that someone else has
 DS>> confirmed the presence of othernets in the Elist.

 > Thanks for checking.

 DS>> The Elist had always advertised itself as not being a Fido
 DS>> net instrument, but a place for interested moderators of
 DS>> any network to list and thus publize their echos.

 > But it *is* true that if someone moderating an echo on an
 > othernet participated in Ben Ritchey's echo registration system,
 > it then got inlcuded in the distributed archive?

 > Is that what the DISTrib and GROUP tags are for?


 >  GROUP scinet
 >  DIST  worlwide

GROUP networkname (1 word)
LANG  language used (1 word)

The reporting process can select specific networks or all it is as far as I
remember set to all by default.

It could for other networks be sent to other files with a hour of programming
effort.

Vincent

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