> I may have signed up yesterday - and tried to opt out of as many
> conferences/echoes as I could find - keeping only the FIDO cooking
> related echoes and the old confuser echoes.
>
> When I tried to dowload a QWK packet I got a *very* long list of scanned
> conferences/echoes but not posts. I suppose because I'm a newbie on
> your board.

I will check and make sure you are joined up to this echo.  Because you
were new, it may have defaulted to the most-recent message.

> I don't normally post "live" but I do like to read on-line sometimes as
> well as check propagation of stuff I have posted elsewhere.

One other thing that Dale ran into... if you are trying the ftelnet
interface on the webpage, it won't actually download anything as most web
browsers don't support the BBS transfer protocols.  :(  Better to use
telnet if you want QWK packets.

Mike


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