On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Vince Coen wrote to mark lewis:

 > -> auto message area creation originated with the likes of gecho, 
 > -> fastecho and others of that vintage...
 > ->
 > -> auto file area creation originated with allfix...

 RW>> Yeah, but sometimes these newer BBS software developers need a 
 RW>> little nudge to go in the same useful direction with their own 
 RW>> software :)

 > agreed... however, mbse has been around for quite a while... perhaps 
 > part of the ""problem"" is that other systems
don't want to follow 
 > the rest of the crowd and end up just like all the others? ;)

 VC> Small point some sysops would not like autocreate to occur for
 VC> areas NOT predefined within an accessable file such as backbone.na
 VC> in order to stop invalid/junk area being created.

so they can turn off the option for that node feeding them... this is a per
node option...

 VC> No I am not one as it is not a problem so far but .....

 :) 

 VC> E.g., must be able to be turned off.

of course... it should not be any other way ;) 

)\/(ark