PE>> Well I believe in not touching the BBS too.  Basically all
 PE>> the "touching" I have been doing to date is to get the
 PE>> bloody thing to work properly.  You can probably tell that
 PE>> it still isn't working properly.

 AM> I understand that and sympathize - I hope you didn't think I was having
 AM> a go at you either.

Not at all.

 PE>> The only reason I turned
 PE>> OFF dupe checking was because I caught it flagging
 PE>> something as dupe that I had never seen before.

 AM> A lucky break in other words...

Not sure what you mean there, but I checked that message, and couldn't find
any sign of it in my messagebase.

 AM> If the software at WORST barfed with an error and says 'dupe detected -
 AM> I'm outa here' you could say the software actually WORKED.  But a funkin

Dupes 1 means that it will keep 1 dupe entry in its dupes file, which means
it's going to have a bloody hard time trying to find dupes.  Dupes 0 I
thought would mean don't keep any record, ie don't do dupe checking. 
Presumably the proper way to switch it off is to leave out the keyword. 
I'll check it in the manual when I have time.

 PE>> I suppose one of the problems is that
 PE>> I didn't get a great deal of help when setting up my BBS.
 PE>> One person did help me, but they weren't happy to answer
 PE>> all my questions at once, and didn't sound like they were
 PE>> happy about me ringing them up at all.

 AM> Says a lot for the documentation... not.

Well there's certainly a lot of documentation, most of which is far too
complicated to someone new to the game.

 PE>> And yes, FD, RA is *HEAPS* easier to set up than the crap
 PE>> I'm using.  Still, with points-only, and Tobruk and
 PE>> Binkley, at least I'll have source code to everything.
 PE>> Like putting 2/10 second delay in to fix double-send.
 PE>> Brilliant! BFN.

 AM> Light at the end of the tunnel?

I sure hope so.  BFN.

Paul

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