On 01-28-03, BOB ACKLEY said:


BA>Replying to a message of Dana Booth to RON MICHAEL:

BA> DB> RON MICHAEL wrote in a message to 9WCMAIL:

BA> RM>> DROP

BA> DB> Another one??!!

BA>That particular individual posted that in numerous echoes, apparently
BA>he is getting out of Fidonet.  At least he's announcing such, most
BA>just fade away.

Here's something from another echo that may shed some light on the 
"drop" messages:

"Some off line mail doors/readers allow a BBS caller to add to or 
subtract from their queued selection of conferences by sending a message 
within given conference with either the words 'ADD' or 'DROP' in the 
subject line and/or message body, depending on what they want to do. 
When they up load their *.REP packet the changes will take effect. 
Unfortunately the QWK mail door more often than not puts these ADD/DROP 
messages into the stream."

I dimly recall using a mail door/reader combo that allowed that but it 
was awhile back.

David R. Norton

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