For the following code in tosspkt.c:

            if (!SearchMsgs(marea)) {
                UpdateNode();
                Syslog('m', "Unknown echo area %s", marea);
                if (!create_msgarea(marea, p_from)) {
                    WriteError("Create echomail area %s failed", marea);
                    bad = 6;
                }
                if (bad == 0) {
                    SearchNode(Link.aka);
                    if (!SearchMsgs(marea)) {
                        WriteError("Unknown echo area %s", marea);
                        echo_bad++;
                        echo_in++;
                        bad = 4;
                        free(marea);
                        free(buf);
                        return 4;
                    }
                }

I'd like to NOT see the first condition fail.  It would be nice that if
an echo is NOT listed in an arealist file, the area gets created anyway
using the echo tag as the description so that the sysop can go back
later and edit the description to his or her liking.  My Fido uplink has
a TON of echos that are not on the BACKBONE.NA file and to have MBSE
autocreate these areas on my setup in such a manner would be absolutely
awesome and make my life (if not the lives of other sysops) much, much
easier.

    Greetings, Robert Wolfe

... "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates '81

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