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  • Old backbone.na files

    From Bob Roberts@1:218/840 to All on Thu Nov 26 23:45:56 2020
    Hi friends,

    Kinda an odd question here I guess.

    Was wondering if anyone could point me towards a source of old "backbone.na" files for Fidonet? Maybe from around 90-94 or so when the net was really cooking. I'm trying to remind myself how many echos there were and what the various topics were. My memory is fuzzy but I remember quite a few.
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Bob Roberts on Mon Dec 21 08:21:48 2020
    Re: Re: Old backbone.na files
    By: Bob Roberts to Nigel Reed on Sat Nov 28 2020 10:25:35

    For the curious, per this file there were 1,775 echos in the list on Dec 5, 1998. Bob Hoffman was the most prolific moderator.

    you should note that that list is the echolist... not the backbone.na list... the echolist lists echo areas for numerous FTNs... not just fidonet... and just because an echo is listed in the echolist doesn't mean it is
    actually alive with traffic...

    as for bob hoffman, he was the head of another FTN and managed all that net's echos as well as the gateway(s) between it and other FTNs...

    just thought you should know...


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  • From Bob Roberts@1:218/840 to mark lewis on Mon Dec 21 10:56:44 2020
    For the curious, per this file there were 1,775 echos in the list on
    Dec 5, 1998. Bob Hoffman was the most prolific moderator.

    you should note that that list is the echolist... not the backbone.na list... the echolist lists echo areas for numerous FTNs... not just fidonet... and just because an echo is listed in the echolist doesn't mean it is actually alive with traffic...

    Understood. It was the only historical record I could find. It doesn't appear an archive of old backbone.na files exists. If one does, I'd love to take a look.

    as for bob hoffman, he was the head of another FTN and managed all that net's echos as well as the gateway(s) between it and other FTNs...

    Which FTN was that? Just curious. There is a google doc here listing all the old FTNs, and it's fun to learn more about them. We're trying to crowdsource the info to complete it.

    https://bit.ly/2WA1XHd

    Bob Roberts
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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to mark lewis on Tue Dec 22 18:20:34 2020
    Hello mark!

    Monday December 21 2020 08:21, you wrote to Bob Roberts:

    Re: Re: Old backbone.na files
    By: Bob Roberts to Nigel Reed on Sat Nov 28 2020 10:25:35

    For the curious, per this file there were 1,775 echos in the list
    on Dec 5, 1998. Bob Hoffman was the most prolific moderator.

    you should note that that list is the echolist... not the backbone.na list... the echolist lists echo areas for numerous FTNs... not just fidonet... and just because an echo is listed in the echolist doesn't
    mean it is actually alive with traffic...

    as for bob hoffman, he was the head of another FTN and managed all
    that net's echos as well as the gateway(s) between it and other
    FTNs...

    The elist and echolist function in the elist software can handle ALL FTN networks for any one who wishes to use it. It just requires a change of keyword
    GROUP from FIDO to what ever ftn is used along with LANG from ENGLISH is needed.

    Vincent

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