Monday April 25 1994, Anthony May writes to Areafix:

 AM> %RESCAN RED_OCTOBER
 AM> + AUST_TRADING
 AM> - STTNG

Ok, I don't know why the RESCAN happened for both areas instead of one, but
then I haven't read the docs.  Alan read the docs and said RESCAN rescans
all new areas added, but I don't necessarily believe him.

And if you've failed to notice the conversations that went in here about
needing to makes sure there was no space between the "-" and the
area name, then you've been rather unattentive (I know it's a pretty weak
ending to that sentence, but I'm not in the mood for abusing the crap out
of people at the moment).

Anyway, "- STTNG" basically means "delete "
"add STTNG".  It thus went and collected it from my uplink.  It
wasn't already active, I don't know why you thought it was.  Anyway, I'd
rather you controlled the areas yourself, so just put in another request
yourself to get it cancelled.  Anyhow, I thought you were a Star Trek fan.

I'm planning on becoming a point any day now (I'll probably move Binkley
and Squish to my C drive, which seems to be more stable than my E drive),
and then I'll have my messagebase and point setup on E.  I'll send messages
to Areafix, the same as you, to get stuff added/deleted.  I don't like
reading my squish.cfg at the moment, because it's full of crap (all these
comments about you guys adding and subtracting areas - I looked up the
manual on that one, and didn't see a way of stopping it from generating the
comment lines). BFN.

Paul

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