Net Humor

Gone from the Backbone
Douglas Myers 1:270/720@fidonet.org doug@mdtnbbs.com

Recently, the Overseer of Backbone Operations announced that the backbone would cease the practice of automatically deleting low-traffic echos. This action did not meet with wide approval from the ZHUBS and RHUBS, and these folks are meeting right now to discuss the issue. While final details of a new plan are yet to be announced, there has been considerable compromise. All are agreed that the following echos should not be restored to the backbone for any reason:

Z&Z&Z&Z

This now sleepy echo was once the gathering place the various identies of Zorch, rumored to have been the head of one of the most powerful voting blocks ever seen on Fido. Dropped by the Elist Robot when the moderator failed to produce evidence that he existed.

HORNY14

This echo stands as an empty tribute to the fourteen year olds who once dominated the chat echos as the carrier pigeon once dominated the skies of North America. The plaintive wails of lonely hearts attempting contact with their adolescent peers of the opposite sex are but a memory, commemorated only by their intellectual heirs, the fifty-ish crowd who preserve their traditions.

P5

Designated the public conference for continued policy improvement, the echo just never caught on.

ELC

Designated the ElfLord Contact conference, this echo fell into disuse in 1989 at a time when the ElfLords scribed their collective wisdom onto great stone tablets which still stand at the entrance to Fidonet.

FTSC_DOCS

This echo is for the release of new documents by the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee. Dropped by the NAB due to no volume.

BIBLE_THUMPER

This write-only echo accounted for 21.6% of all backbone traffic when it was removed from the elist. The moderator was discovered to have no valid Fido address, and evidence indicates that he was probably a fictitious character who frequented the DISNEY echo.

Z1C_INPUT

Another popular write-only echo, the idea was that end-nodes could write to the Z1C without being burdened by replies. Dropped at the moderator's request because it duplicated the function of the Z1C echo.

NMAD

The Naked Mother's Against Dyslexia echo was accidentally unlisted in 1997 when the organization's founder discovered that her autopost robot had failed. She attempted a manual update, thus creating the DAMN conference. Ironically, 2000 naked mothers who had tried to areafix the NMAD conference previously found themselves auto-connected within two hours of DAMN's addition to the backbone.

SUPER-BATCH

Bitching does strange things to the eyes, and the batch file writers found that they had to retreat to the BATPOWER conference when two blurry-eyed super-bitches found their way into their now defunct conference. The @echo off @ffectionados hope that a BITCHPOWER movement is not in the offing.

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