I have found that I have already gone halfway, and that I have
already set up a file area for you to send in special file
updates.  This way you don't have to hassle me, you can simply
send something to Special Requests and it automatically gets
put in there.  To do this you need to send your file in with
a TIC file as well.  I don't know what the naming standards
are.  If you were to use YATIC, it will probably do all this
automatically for you.  It is extremely complicated to set up
though.  Perhaps one/several of you would like to try, and
see who is successful.  I don't know if it's legal, but try
calling your file TICxxxxx.TIC, where xxxxx is your point
number, in decimal, with leading zeros.  Here is what the
file should like like:

Area SPECIALR
Origin 3:711/934.x
From 3:711/934
File TRAINS.ZIP
Desc An incredibly boring file on trains
CRC 5BE109EF     (let's hope you can leave this line out)
Pw XXXXXXX       (your areafix password).


You can all try various things if you want, at the same time,
just upload some files, say POINTxxx.TXT, about 20 bytes
long.  So get your setup automated so that you upload one of
these files, plus the TIC file, and then FREQ the FILES list
each day.  (of course it will take 24 hours for the file
list to be updated).  This way, you can experiment one day,
and 2 days later you check to see if it worked.

If you never plan to ever send me files for your mealy-mouthed
friends to use, don't bother doing any experiments.

BTW, I am now timing all time I spend on BBS work, Email, TV,
writing code etc, in an effort to reduce the amount of time
wasted.  BFN.  Paul.

P.S. In summary, please help me to make the BBS automated, so
that I don't get frustrated, and you don't have to put up with
delays and errors caused by the sysop having to touch the BBS.

P.P.S. Another step is to figure out how to get messages from
one user automatically forwarded to another user.  I think I
can do this with "Forward From" and "Forward To" in squish,
but I'm not sure.  Also, I'm not really sure how you are
meant to send them yourself, unless it's via file attaches.
Perhaps it's not something that needs to be done yet, as
I've only had the one case of someone saying "can you send
xyz file to abc" instead of "can you make this file available
for freq".
@EOT:

--- Mksmsg