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Skriven 2014-05-25 20:17:40 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.71)
  Kommentar till text 15717 av John Guillory (1:396/60.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 31 no 21 Page: 4
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On Sun, 25 May 2014, John Guillory wrote to Jon Justvig:

 JJ>     By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net

 JJ>              Unsorted:              Sorted:
 JJ>              =========              =======
 JJ>              0  10TH_AMD            331  FIDO-REQ

 JG>                   This kind of says a lot ------^
 JG>                    almost makes you wonder.... may have to see
 JG> what's                    going on and what's requested!

that echo is nothing more than just another file annuoncement echo... it has
nothing to do with files that are requested by anyone...

 JJ>              2  AFTERSHOCK          281  FDN_ANNOUNCE
 JJ>              0  ALASKA_CHAT         248  ALLFIX_FILE
 JJ>            248  ALLFIX_FILE         224  SYNCDATA
 JG>                      I'm suprised this is on fidonet-^
 JG>                      and comparing it's messages to
 JG>                     other areas isn't really fair.
 JG>                     Not like folks actually read it... ;-)

you may be surprised... i read it and when i see data that is out of date, i do
attempt to contact those systems and let them know so they can fix the
errors... besides, no one ever said that message areas had to be populated by
humans ;)

 JJ>              0  ALLFIX_HELP         202  COOKING
 JJ>             89  AMATEUR_RADIO       180  MYSTIC
 JJ>              0  AMIGA                89  AMATEUR_RADIO
 JJ>              0  ANTI_VIRUS           86  BATPOWER
 JG>                    I wonder how many of the stat's are messed up   
 JG>                 due to the messed up messages in my Mystic areas   
 JG>                 getting tossed all over the place!  Any echo I     
 JG>               subscribed to got lots of messages that had nothing  
 JG>                  to do with their areas!  Gonna really skew the    
 JG>                 stats this week! ;-)

i've /never/ seen the problems you have described with mystic's tools tossing
mail into the wrong areas... it sounds like you have areas being stored in the
same base filenames and maybe not seperated into directories... no one else has
reported any problems similar to yours... definitely not in the last two or
three years since i've been involved with mystic...

 JG> I thought about writing an app for NC's and RC's to send out a ping
 JG> to all the sysop's in their net and have them reply to it. If not
 JG> replied within a week, let the NC/RC/ZC verify for their self that
 JG> those nodes are in fact active.  If not active, mark them down.  2
 JG> weeks of down and they're out of  the nodelist.  If a NC or RC is
 JG> marked down with existing nodes in their net, then notify them to
 JG> see who will take over or what happened.... 

there are numerous tools out there that can send netmails... one need only
create a template message and fire it off... no big deal and has been around
since the 80s and 90s ;)

)\/(ark

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gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin

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