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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1993-08-07 07:24:28
subject: prepacking

PE> One of the things I did last weekend was put in place automatic offline
 PE> reading.  It seems to be working fine, and keeps backups of all the
 PE> packets for 21 days.  The automated procedure would work like this - you
 PE> dial in as a point and poll for mail AND send me a file, your .REP.  You
 PE> should call the packet PASSWORD.REP instead of tenmin.rep for security
 PE> purposes.  Also the packet will arrive your end as PASSWORD.QWK instead of
 PE> tenmin.qwk.  You can rename these things when you start/exit frontdoor. It
 PE> will prepack the mail at 7AM, and if there was no mail by then because of
 PE> some problem, you can log on manually at 6PM or whatever to get it.  I
 PE> have been prepacking mail for my wife (not that she reads it!) all this
 PE> week.  Let me know if you want to do it, and I'll make the change Saturday
 PE> night.  BFN.

If don't get an answer today (expecting one yesterday), I'll assume the
answer is "yes"!  :-)  I'm interested to see that in action. 
BFN.

Paul

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