PE> It's not something he was able to do when logging on to the BBS and
PE> using QWK, and the purpose of a point is not so that you can break
PE> the FTS specs.

BV> True. When I revert to becoming a normal end-user after this message
BV> I will have to log into an unknown BBS and create a dummy user to
BV> post messages like that. It won't be impossible, just a tad more
BV> difficult, thats all.

The messages will have an origin line in them.  It will be 
impossible.

BV> You really didn't see the humour in it did you ? 

NO.  It was swamped by making my system put out out-of-spec
messages.

BV> I hold no animosity and depart a happy man. I still get a chuckle
BV> when I think about it. It was worth it.

PE> Crikey, I am quite happy to be a doormat, this board is specifically
PE> set up to be such, but I don't think it's unreasonably to expect the
PE> same courtesy that my feed expects of me, ie
PE> 1. Mail must conform to the appropriate specs.
PE> 2. Bear in mind that your waiting mail takes up disk space on
PE>    your host's machine.

BV> I sincerely hope that you don't feel I have treated you like a doormat as

You misunderstand.  I'm not just "quite happy" to be a doormat,
that is EXACTLY what I want to be.  Not an administrator, a
doormat.

PE> However, I checked and he hasn't called since he posted that
PE> message, which means it looks like the bastard doesn't even
PE> have the decency to deselect himself from the echos.

BV> This is the only reason you are getting this message. The other message
BV> in this packet will be to AreaFix deselecting all areas that I have
BV> tagged. I figured that you would simply have to do something like
BV> DEL 0000007.* or sumfin. 

What you should have figured was that I didn't want to have to
do that at all.  It's quite simple really:

1. If you want to get echos, you use areafix to connect to them.
2. If you don't want echos, you use areafix to deselect them.
3. If you don't intend to call ever again, you deselect all echos,
wait 24 hours (to give areafix a chance to deselect them), and
then you CALL ONCE MORE to pick up the last up-to-24 hours worth of 
mail, and the message from areafix telling you that the areas have
all be deselected.

If you're ever trying to decide between notifying me that you're
not going to pick up any more echos from me ever again in your
life, or notifying areafix the same information, always give
priority to areafix.  I don't care, but areafix does.  The other
thing is that areafix deselects echos (from 3:711/809) where you 
are the only person getting the echo.

As it is, I was here when you called, and manually ran areafix to
process your request so that there will be no backlog of echomail,
just the one message from areafix (which will remain until you
pick it up).

BV> Your eyes are bulging out of you head and you want to scream in terror
BV> but you cant because you've got a hamburger spatula implanted in your
BV> neck. The terror really takes ahold when you realise that you can't
BV> even scream with your larynx smashed, having been severed by the
BV> impaling implement, as your mind reels, "People aren't supposed to
BV> die this way. That isn't in the spec".

Yeah, meat is grown in butcher shops, dontchaknow.  And the ones
that aren't are all cows that have died of old age.  I'd rather
have my world than your dreamworld.  And what you do to your
kids with tobacco is far more a henious crime than anything I've
ever done.  Personally I would have people like you charged with
terrorism, or at least child abuse.  BFN.  Paul.
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