Coordinator's Corner

North American Backbone Echo Changes [Sep-Oct]
by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/16
lisa@psg.com

Summary of backbone & quasi-backbone echo changes during Sep & Oct.

Brought to you courtesy of (unix) diff.

diff (backbone.na + backbone.no) 07-Sep-97 02-Nov-97 [edited].

Added to the backbone
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> BEACH_BOYS          Fans of the Beach Boys & their music
> CABLE_MODEMS        Cable_Modems
> CARPENTERS          Fans of Karen & Richard Carpenter & their music
> FTN_INTERNET        FTN Internet Discussion
> HAM-ECHO            Open discussion of Ham/Amateur Radio general
>                     interest.
> IPMAILER            IPMAILER
> JUNO                The JUNO e-mail service
> LORD2_CHAT          LORD 2 Discussion Conference
> LORD2_IGM           LORD 2 IGM Discussion Conference
> LORD2_SYSOP         LORD 2 Discussion Conference
> MOSCOW_OKLAHOMA     LINK BETWEEN The States and Moscow!
> PRO_WRESTLING       PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING ECHO.
> TRIUS               TRIUS, Inc. Product Support and Information Echo
> Z1C                 Zone 1 Coordinator Contact Conference

Removed from the backbone or quasi-backbone
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< AIDS.DATA           (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
< ECOLOGY             Ecology - Discussion of problems and solutions.
< EMERG_NOTIFY        (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
< LORE                (low traffic since  7/1/97)
< MEMPHIS             (low traffic since  8/1/97)
< MS_WORD             Microsoft Word
< MUSICIAN            (low traffic since  7/1/97)
< OFFICE97            (low traffic since  8/1/97)
< QUICKPRO            QuickBBS Professional Sysop's Forum
< SIM                 Simulation & Wargaming
< SINGLE_MOMS         Forum for Single Mothers
< WARNING             (low traffic since  7/1/97)

• There are 679 echos in backbone.na [02-Nov-97] (down 16)
• There are 98 echos in backbone.no [02-Nov-97] (up 18)
• for a total of 777 backbone & quasi-backbone echos (up 2)