On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Robert Wolfe wrote to All:

 RW> Ok, one of the features I half-link about MBSE is the fact that it 
 RW> autocreates message areas based on .NA files.  But, that's just 
 RW> it. The areas it creates MUST be in the .NA file in order for them 
 RW> to be autocreated.

i don't know when this method started but synchronet was our first exposure
to it... on the one hand it makes sense but on the other? nah...

 RW> I know Mystic as well as BBBS autocreate areas based on the echo 
 RW> tag found in the header of each message as well.

mystic took both methods from requests and those requests were based on the
users of other software asking for them...

 RW> I was wondering if this ability could be included in a  future 
 RW> version of MBSE?  Would be nice if MBSE autocreated file echos as
 RW> well based  on  the ECHO tag in TIC files -- like Mystic does :)

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

auto file area creation originated with allfix...

 ;) 

)\/(ark