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    From elistmaint@2:250/1 to All on Sun May 17 18:28:16 2026

    Hello everybody!

    I have done a wee bit of spring cleaning on the backbone areas including my system removing all dead echo areas (that are not in the ELIST moderator list).

    This involves some 90 - 100 ish areas.

    How do I know - my msg base is JAM so any echo with a header file (.jhr) of 1k is empty of messages and I have the full backbone held (including the dead one's).

    I also noticed that there are a lot of moderated areas that are also dormant i.e, zero traffic so can all mods please check your own system for these and delete any that you also have zero traffic having confirmed with your uplink that you are connected to them (with your uplinks).

    If you need to, you can also confirm with me to verify that the areas are dead here and yes I do retain posts for 2 years or more other than for time limited areas such as adverts other than for echos which are only held here for 90
    days (well I will change my system to that as currently the default is 2 years or more. I am not doing this because of shortage of disc space - I have plenty - just a tidy up of the system as messages are consuming 507 MB.


    Vincent


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  • From Terry Roati@3:712/1321 to elistmaint on Mon May 18 10:22:30 2026
    Hi Vince,

    Will this file be named BACKBONE.NO and distributed in the monthly Elist?

    Thanks, it will be a big help to a lot of Sysops.

    Terry


    On May 17, 2026 06:27pm, elistmaint wrote to All:

    Hello everybody!

    I have done a wee bit of spring cleaning on the backbone areas including
    my system removing all dead echo areas (that are not in the ELIST
    moderator list).

    This involves some 90 - 100 ish areas.

    How do I know - my msg base is JAM so any echo with a header file (.jhr)
    of 1k is empty of messages and I have the full backbone held (including
    the dead one's).

    I also noticed that there are a lot of moderated areas that are also dormant i.e, zero traffic so can all mods please check your own system
    for these and delete any that you also have zero traffic having
    confirmed with your uplink that you are connected to them (with your uplinks).

    If you need to, you can also confirm with me to verify that the areas
    are dead here and yes I do retain posts for 2 years or more other than
    for time limited areas such as adverts other than for echos which are
    only held here for 90 days (well I will change my system to that as currently the default is 2 years or more. I am not doing this because of shortage of disc space - I have plenty - just a tidy up of the system as messages are consuming 507 MB.


    Vincent


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