Hello Sean!

19 Feb 09 19:49, Sean Dennis wrote to Mike Tripp:

 SD> and change four networks' worth of areas for a couple of users.  I
 SD> know Blue Wave is nice and its features are good, but since my BBS is
 SD> mainly used as a "backup" board by a majority of my
users, I think I'm
 SD> just going to pass on setting up the door.

If it's not fun for you, you should probably pass.  I set both Bluewave and
Silver Xpress for the experience, with only one user interested in each. 
They both came to me from another Maximus board in my net that shut down,
and had already automated their upload/downloads with scripts in their comm
software.

 SD> I've had this setup running for so long that I've memorized all of the
 SD> message bases; it's easier for me to rememeber FIDO.Bluewave than it
 SD> is message area 179 or some such.

The door generates the numbers next to the internal Maximus names
dynamically in the tag/untag screens.  You don't define "area
179", but the user can type "179" instead of
"FIDO.Bluewave" to select it.

 SD> From the discussions I've had with my users, they seem content
 SD> with Maximus's QWK setup.  What really drives me nuts about it is
 SD> that instead of using the echotag, Maximus uses a shortened
 SD> (basically chopped) version of the area description.

Strange.  I have truncated names (9 char max) in 2.x and full tagnames in
3.x. You have to type "AUTOMOBILE_RACING" to tag it for the
internal QWK.  You may have migrated something over while upgrading?

.\\ike

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