09 Apr 21 17:20, August Abolins wrote to mark lewis:

Hello mark!

** On Thursday 08.04.21 - 22:21, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

...at one time, all of the backbones required an echo to be
listed in the echolist before deciding if the echo would be
carried on the backbone in question... there were three
main ones, that i recall... they are/were the NAB, Z1B, and
WWB...

I found that part very confusing back in the day. I started and
moderated at least one echo IEEE for a while.

matt bedynek's system interfaced with all three of
them to facilitate comms between them... not only routed
netmail but the echos that were carried on them... his
system really put in some work in those days :)

I don't remember that detail. What did the letters in "WWB"
stand for?

"World Wide Backbone". You can still find some old lists in my bbs, freq WWB-*.*

The list 'WWB-FIN.222' has been generated every month since.. Well, forever. :)

'Tommi

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Hello Tommi!

"World Wide Backbone". You can still find some old lists in my bbs, freq WWB-*.*

The list 'WWB-FIN.222' has been generated every month since.. Well, forever. :)

Hmmm. I haven't had a look yet, but who generates or manages
it?

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On 10.04.2021 15:19, August Abolins wrote:

Hello Tommi!

TK> "World Wide Backbone". You can still find some old lists in my bbs, freq
TK> WWB-*.*

TK> The list 'WWB-FIN.222' has been generated every month since.. Well,
TK> forever. :)

Hmmm. I haven't had a look yet, but who generates or manages
it?

Me. Or my system. :)

A quote from the past:


World Wide Backbone Status and Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BACKSTAT.WW

26 March 2000


======================================================================== Contents:
~~~~~~~~~
1. Additions to BACKBONE.WW
2. Deletions from BACKBONE.WW
3. Who's Who in the WWB administration ========================================================================

This is the weekly status and changes report prepared by WWB, the World
Wide Backbone. It is distributed in WWB and BACKBONE file echoes, along
with other informations (see below), and posted in the WWB_SYSOP echo.

Further information about WWB can be found in the other files contained
in the WWByyddd.ZIP archive distributed weekly in the WWB file echo:

* WWB.TXT A quick introduction to WWB project
* BACKBONE.WW Listing of echomail areas distributed by the WWB
* BACKSTAT.WW World Wide Backbone status report (this file)
* RESERVED.WW Reserved echomail areas for WWB administration
* Z1-ONLY.WW Echomail areas distributed in Zone 1 only
* Z2-ONLY.WW Echomail areas distributed in Zone 2 only
* ROUTE.WW Overview of major echomail routes within WWB
(maintained by Lothar Behet, 2:2446/301)

The WWByyddd.ZIP archive is also available for FTP download at:

ftp://ftp.coastalwarehouse.com/fidonet/backbone


1. Additions to BACKBONE.WW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<none>


2. Deletions from BACKBONE.WW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<none>


3. Who's Who in the WWB administration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Overseer of direct netmail links:
Lothar Behet 2:2446/301 lb-fido@nrh.de

Zone Hubs:
Zone 1 Matt Bedynek 1:106/1 mbedynek@pdq.net
Zone 2 Michael Kaaber 2:236/205 kaaber@r23.dk
German Moncada 2:345/430 german@r34.zoom.es
Zone 3 Barry Blackford 3:774/605 barry@glonet.co.nz

Regional Hubs:
Zone 1
Region 10 Joe Jared 1:103/301 joejared@osirusoft.com
Region 12 Kari Suomela 1:244/2 ks@karicobs.com
Region 13 David Moufarrege 1:2613/404 david@wnybbs.net
Region 17 Richard Dodsworth 1:342/3 mach2@v-wave.com
Region 18 Robert Todd 1:3632/84 rtodd1@intop.net
Region 19 Matt Bedynek 1:106/1 mbedynek@pdq.net
Zone 2
Region 20 Jesper Sorensen 2:20/11 yeppe@enjoy.cc
Region 21 Torbjorn Mohn 2:211/37 tmohn@online.no
Region 22 Tommi Koivula 2:221/360 tommi@rbb.pasi.net
Region 23 Michael Kaaber 2:236/205 kaaber@r23.dk
Region 24 Sven Dueker 2:2432/200 sdueker@gmx.de
Region 25 Richard Brumpton 2:2502/40 sysop@carso.co.uk
Region 28 Kees van Eeten 2:280/5003 kees@ddutch.hobby.nl
Region 29 Eric Vaneberck 2:292/2003 eric@surf.be
Region 30 Peter Witschi 2:301/1 pwitschi@fbone.ch
Region 31 Gabriel Plutzar 2:31/1 gabriel@hit.priv.at
Region 33 Roberto Mascolo 2:332/807 robyx@sp.itline.it
Region 34 Julio Garcia 2:344/201 julio@masbytes.es
Region 38 Sinisa Burina 2:382/100 six@fido.org.yu
Region 40 Ofir Michaeli &
Marius Kaizerman 2:406/555 marius@actcom.co.il
Region 42 Milos Bajer 2:423/81 milos@bajer.cz
Region 46 Va Milushnikov 2:465/204 va@esperanto.nu
Region 48 Adam Sarapata 2:480/112 leonardo@bossar.com.pl
Region 50 Andrey Podkolzin 2:5030/115 mdh@sut.ru
Region 51 Egons Bush 2:5100/8 egons@bank.lv
Zone 3
Region 50 Malcolm Miles 3:633/260 mgm@tardis.net
Region 54 Rick Van Ruth 3:640/954 ricta@ricta.net
Region 57 Barry Blackford 3:774/605 barry@glonet.co.nz

========================================================================
Comments, suggestions, corrections and updates to this file should be
posted in the WWB_SYSOP echo or sent by private netmail (or email) to
the maintainer: Mario Mure', 2:335/533, mure@sistemia.it

-----------oOo-------------

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Hello Tommi!

TK> The list 'WWB-FIN.222' has been generated every month
since.. Well, TK> forever. :)

Hmmm. I haven't had a look yet, but who generates or
manages it?

Me. Or my system. :)

A quote from the past:

[...]

BACKSTAT.WW
26 March 2000

Anything from 2020? ;)

Zone Hubs:
Regional Hubs:
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 3

Many of the other people named are probably long gone by now. :(

But it looked like a nice cooperative system back then.

A depository of all current accessible (and non-local) FTN echos
would be good!


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