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North American Backbone
Echo Changes [Jul-Aug]
by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/9 lisa@psg.com

Summary of backbone & quasi-backbone echo changes during Jul & Aug.

Brought to you courtesy of (unix) diff.

diff (backbone.na + backbone.no) 05-Jul-98 06-Sep-98 [edited].

Added to the backbone

> ELEBBS_SUPPORT      The Official EleBBS Support Conference
> GEOWORKS            Geoworks software conference.
> SUPER-BITCH         Super Bitch Discussion Area
> WEBUTIL             International WEBUTIL Echo
> WWIV                WWIV BBS Software

Removed from the backbone or quasi-backbone

< BASIC7              (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< BASSGTR             (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< CYBER_AUCTION       Cyber Auction echo
< DAIRY_FARM          Dairy Farming Conference
< DEBATE_ON_ABORTION  (low traffic since  6/1/98)
< DTP                 Desktop Publishing discussion
< ET_SIGHTINGS        ET_SIGHTINGS Discussion Conference
< FTN_INTERNET        (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< GAMES4SALE          (low traffic since  6/1/98)
< GENDATA             (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< IRC_CHAT            IRC_CHAT Discussion Conference
< LORD2_IGM           (low traffic since  4/1/98)
< LORD2_SYSOP         (low traffic since  4/1/98)
< MED_MOANS           (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< NANFE               North America Native Fish Echo.
< SLEEP_APNEA         (low traffic since  6/1/98)
< STARTREK_CCG        (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< STTOS               (low traffic since  6/1/98)
< SYNCHRONET          (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< TRI_SYSOP           (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< VIRUS_NFO           (low traffic since  2/1/98)
< WC4DOS              WildCat! 4 Systems Discussion and Support.

• There are 609 echos in backbone.na [06-Sep-98] (down 24)
• There are 107 echos in backbone.no [06-Sep-98] (up 7)
• for a total of 716 backbone & quasi-backbone echos (down 17)