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echo: fmail_help
to: mark lewis
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2017-08-18 14:21:48
subject: Import/Export

Hello mark,

Fri Aug 18 2017 05:09:02, you wrote to me:

 ml> that's all most mail tossers ever did with it... the idea was solely
 ml> to have consistent descriptions of the message areas across all
 ml> BBSes... definitely not to build one's message base configuration as
 ml> has been done by some few in the last decade or so... that's just
 ml> crazy... autoadd is the way to go so that areas are added only when
 ml> traffic in them starts flowing ;) ;) ;)

Yeah ok. But more like "some everything in the last decade or
so". Anything I've used with FTN has imported both the echotag and
description. *shrug*

Just as well, at some point the areas.bbs format changed from the old RA
MSG format to not include paths as well.

Regards,
Nick

... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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