On 2019 Jun 30 16:05:40, you wrote to me:

 ml>> whoa! i have like 5 or 6 groups in effect for one network, alone...
 ml>> plus i use Z for all newly autoadded echos... i've not done anything
 ml>> with

 DR> I'm just using one group per network, for the most part. I do have
 DR> another group set up for the usenet newsgroups that I carry, and I get
 DR> those from multiple hubs, so it gets a bit interesting. I also work
 DR> with 4 different hubs just for fidonet as well...

yeah... some of what i use groups for security levels were used for in the
past... there were times, however, that i couldn't do what i want to with
security levels, though... like higher levels have access to lower levels but i
 need one level for X and another one for Y with no crossing the line...

 ml>> FDNs yet... anyway , at 5 groups per network, i'd run out of groups
 ml>> at 5 networks joined... i reall y like sbbs' 8 character groups...
 ml>> they're

 DR> Are you referring to groups in hpt?

well, both hpt and golded in this point setup situation and thinking about if
it were a full node with multiple feeds and downlinks...

 DR> If so, you can have many more groups. I've stopped using single
 DR> letters for groups, and started using 'fido', 'fsx', etc. It makes it
 DR> a lot easier to keep them straight in my head...

i didn't know that htp could do multiple character groups but then i've not dug
 in further since i got everything set up and workinig like it is...

 ml>> nicer than the single characters once used a lot better than the 4
 ml>> characters ones that came later... i was just abou t hitting my
 ml>> limits in fastecho, too, when i was running it... especially when h
 ml>> aving to

 DR> It's been awhile since I used Synchronet. I do have it running on one
 DR>QWK gateway for a couple
 DR> networks. I really don't even look at it that often...

:)  it is my main system now since hurricane florence came through... it
handles all my hubbing stuff as a backbone star...

 ml>> block access to the individual beta testing areas and private echo
 ml>> area s i carry... i won't even mention limiting access to zone
 ml>> restricted sysop only areas and the like ;)

 DR> I haven't even worried about that, as I don't have any feeds outside
 DR> the zone. :)

:)

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