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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-07-07 04:49:00
subject: XT_ETC

Hi, Paul.

PE> PE> You definitely want it?  If so, I'll arrange with Bill for him to start
PE> PE> sending it.  BFN.  Paul.

PE> FM> I don't know if I definitely want it. Probably not. But why is it
PE> FM> different from any other echoes that I can AreaFix from you, that just
PE> FM> automatically starts requesting them from wherever?

PE> My system is set up so that all of Dave Hatch's echos are
PE> automatically available to you.  Squalid is the software I
PE> am running that does that.  I don't know how to make it get
PE> echos for points automatically from any address other than
PE> Dave.  If you care to read the documentation and tell me
PE> what I need to do, I will do so, but it is pretty useless,
PE> because it wouldn't work anyway, because Bill isn't
PE> areafix-able etc.  Therefore it's a manual process, and you
PE> have to tell me you definitely want it, and I'll arrrange
PE> with Bill for him to send it and I'll add you in to it.  Once
PE> someone is added in, anyone else can hook in too.  But if all
PE> people hook out of it it will cause unknown effects.

Thanks. I don't want it badly enough to make you (& maybe Bill) do
manual things and I definitely don't want to cause unknown effects. :-)
If it ever gets to Dave's system I'll take a look at it.

Regards, FIM.

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