Coordinator's Corner

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

Summary of backbone & quasi-backbone echo changes during Jan & Feb.

Brought to you courtesy of (unix) diff.

diff (backbone.na + backbone.no) 04-Jan-98 01-Mar-98 [edited].

Added to the backbone

CHAT                Fidonet General Chat Echo
DAIRY_FARM          Dairy Farming Conference
DAYS_OF_OUR_LIVES   Days of Our Lives Open Discussion Echo
DCTPROD             The DCT Productions Support Echo
FIDO-REQ            Announce files in this conference
FIDO_UTIL           Fidonet Related SysOp Utils and Apps Discussion
FIPS                Fidonet Integrated Point System
IREX                Internet Rex (FTN <=> Internet) Echo
IRS_HELP            General Help pertaining to the IRS
NAB_POLICY          An echo for the formulation of NAB polic
NCSSA               National Coalition of Sysops and Sysadmins
PCWRITE             PCWrite and Multi-Platform Computing
SLICK_WILLY         Bill Cinton Discussion Echo

Removed from the backbone or quasi-backbone

BBSCON              (low traffic since 12/1/97)
CLARION             (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
CYBER_AUCTION       (low traffic since  9/1/97)
DTP                 (low traffic since 12/1/97)
ENVIRO              (low traffic since  9/1/97)
FAROUT              (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
FIDOWORK            (low traffic since  9/1/97)
FREE_BIBLE          (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
NURSES_NETWORK      (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
NUTRITION           (low traffic since 12/1/97)
P_NEWS              (not in EchoList since 11/1/97)
SIP_ALANON          (low traffic since 12/1/97)
SNETNEWS            (not in EchoList since  9/1/97)
SQDSV               (low traffic since 10/1/97)
TOURETTES           (low traffic since  9/1/97)
WHIRLYBIRDS         (low traffic since 10/1/97)

• There are 674 echos in backbone.na [01-Mar-98] (up 14)
• There are 97 echos in backbone.no [01-Mar-98] (down 17)
• for a total of 771 backbone & quasi-backbone echos (down 3)

Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 065
By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
ZC/2

+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!Zone/Jul!Ndl-037!Nodel.-044!Nodel.-051!Nodel.-058!Nodel.-065!%%!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!  1/065 !  5872 ! 5872    0! 5828  -44! 5781  -47! 5667 -114!26!
!  2/065 ! 14370 !14384   14!14299  -85!14274  -25!14327   53!65!
!  3/058 !   565 !  553  -12!  550   -3!  550    0!  528  -22! 2!
!  4/058 !   410 !  406   -4!  403   -3!  403    0!  402   -1! 2!
!  5/037 !    87 !   87    0!   87    0!   87    0!   87    0! 0!
!  6/058 !   322 !  322    0!  322    0!  319   -3!  934  615! 4!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
         ! 21626 !21624   -2!21489 -135!21414  -75!21945  531!
         +-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+