RS> So what happens if someone adds an area, which is a big one, which has a
 RS> massive collection of mail going back months ?  Not that it matter much
 RS> I guess, you dont really want the 6MB QWK in that case anyway, or
 RS> atleast I dont, having to pay Telecom great wads of cash to cart it over
 RS> here |-)

It would break the 10 minute limit anyway, so it's tough cheddar as they
say! If you want that much mail, you have to get it in 1 meg compressed
chunks (or thereabouts), by selecting one conference at a time.

 PE>> BTW Rod, it takes 20 seconds from the time you get a connect till the
 PE>> time the BBS is spawned.  If you press escape, you can get it down to
 PE>> 4 seconds. Why not press escape, wait 1 sec, press escape, wait 1 sec
 PE>> etc a total of 4 times?

 RS> I do, and have always done. On the odd few occasions when you had the
 RS> glitch which prevented chars from me being seen, it was quite clear that
 RS> the behaviour was quite different. In other words the ESCs are being
 RS> sent to your system normally.

 RS> [an attempt to support this theory]

Perhaps you can get Phillip to teach you how to set up Telemate properly.
He doesn't seem to have a problem, nor does Brenton:

# 01 Aug 08:38:49 BINK Ring
# 01 Aug 08:39:04 BINK Connect 12000 Ec/Mnp4
: 01 Aug 08:39:13 BINK Spawning BBS
: 01 Aug 08:40:20 BINK Returned from BBS
# 01 Aug 09:49:16 BINK Ring
# 01 Aug 09:49:28 BINK Connect 14400 Ec/V42Bis
: 01 Aug 09:49:35 BINK Spawning BBS
: 01 Aug 09:50:49 BINK Returned from BBS
# 01 Aug 09:53:04 BINK Ring
# 01 Aug 09:53:18 BINK Connect 14400 Ec/Mnp4
: 01 Aug 09:53:37 BINK Spawning BBS
: 01 Aug 09:54:31 BINK Returned from BBS


Paul

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