There has been a flurry of activity recently, so I have updated
TENPOINT.TXT with the latest information on how to keep things
automated on this system.  You should treat me the same way that
I treat Dave Hatch - a place that gives me mail so long as I obey
the technical protocols.  Here is the additions to this file that
I made tonight...


In whatever procedure you end up using to get mail from me, please
set up your system so that the *VERY FIRST* thing it does after
getting mail from me, is save a copy into some temporary directory.
That way if anything goes wrong, and something stuffs up your mail,
you can reprocess it yourself, instead of asking me to resend mail.
Generally I cannot resend mail because I don't keep the echos on the
BBS, they are all passthrough.  And the stuff that I read myself is
just for personal amusement, just like ANY OTHER user, so e.g. you
can ask another user of the BBS to send you messages you have lost,
just as easily as asking me.  Anyway, if you just ensure that you
ALWAYS make a copy of your inbound mail, it will never be an issue.
In the same way in that if I lose mail that I picked up from my boss
(Dave Hatch), that's just my bad luck, I lose the mail (which is why
the VERY FIRST thing that I do is to copy my inbound mail into a
"save" directory).


There are a few file areas available for FREQs.  Most of them are
maintained by me or David Begley.  If you wish to maintain a lot of
files for some special purpose, I can set up a special area for you.
However, only send files if you actually want to specifically make
them available to the general public for some reason, as I do not
personally have a desire to fill my hard disk as quickly as 
possible (as so many other sysops seem so keen to do).  If I want
millions of files I will just by a CDROM for $15.  However, feel
free to upload stuff if you feel that it is providing a service to
someone.

There is one special file area called "Special Requests", with a
TIC area name of "SPECIALR".  For general files you want to make
available to the general public (ie not just some crap for one
person), you need to submit it use the TIC mechanism.  To do this
you either need to get hold of the appropriate technology (Yatic
or similar), or you can do it by hand by creating a file as
described below...

You need to create a file called TICxxxxx.TIC, where xxxxx is
your point number, e.g. for point 13 it is TIC00013.TIC.  In
that file you need to put the following information:

Area SPECIALR
Origin 3:711/934.13
From 3:711/934.13
File BORING.ZIP
Desc An incredibly boring file 
Pw XXXXXXXX

Changing the "Origin" and "From" fields to your
address, the "File"
to the name of your file, "Desc" to the description, and "Pw" to
your password (the same password you use to call me).


One other thing you need to know is how to send a file to another
user on this board.  You can do this without having to get me
involved, because I have allowed you to send files via my system.
The FTS spec (the one that governs the format of the .PKT files
that you send me) has a method to allow you to send files.  What
you need to do is send netmail to whoever you want the file to go
to, and in the "subject" field, you must enter the name of the file
you are sending.  If you use "proper" software, you can do all of
this through the message editor.  If you are using some braindead
concoction of software, you will need to do it manually.  The manual
process involves making the subject equal to the filename, and then
in the outgoing packet you need to find the beginning of the message
(it is marked by two bytes, x'02' and x'00'), and the first message
should come immediately after the packet header, which is 58 bytes
long.  The x'02' is position 0 in the message, and you need to go to 
position x'0a', which is the low-order byte of the attribute.  You
then need to set bit 4 of this byte on, ie OR it with 0x10.  The
value that is there already is *probably* 0x01 which means "private"
is the only attribute set.  So you will end up changing this to 0x11.
So you end up sending me this message with the file-attach bit set,
and you must also send me the file at the same time, and it will be
forwarded to the other user (so long as they are a point off my
system), and then it will delete the file from my system.  Which
makes it nice and clean from my point of view.  

Of course, if you are sending a file to *me* personally (ie not
a file to be made available on the BBS), then of course I am happy
to process it manually, because I have to anyway.


Thanks for your cooperation in keeping the system automated, so
that running a BBS is NO skin off my nose.  Paul.

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