Subj : areafix question - requesting upstream echoes?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Apr 27 2025 17:55:46

  Re: areafix question - requesting upstream echoes?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Apr 27 2025 01:00 pm

 > Subject: areafix question - requesting upstream echoes?
 > @MSGID: <680E8CCC.69864.dove.sync@realitycheckbbs.org>
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 > I've got downlinks in region 10 and elsewhere. I want them to be able to
 > request message echoes from me, and if I don't carry them, to pass the
 > request on to my uplink and have that feature turned on.
 >
 > For a downlink to be able to enter an areafix request for an echo I don't
 > carry, and for sbbsecho to pass it along to uplink, does that echo need to
 > be in *my* backbone.na file? I'm thinking of a scenario where there's a new
 > echo that my uplink has defined, but I don't have it in my backbone.na yet.
 > Would that request go through or fail?

The echo still needs to be listed in *an* echolist, but the request can be forwarded to your uplink, if so configured in echocfg->EchoLists.
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