JB> I'm firmly in your camp with this one, for another reason I hadn't
 JB> thought about. To add delete echoes, you'd have to bother the sysop to
 JB> forward them or not, wouldn't you?

 CH> Wow. I never thought of that either! ANother plus for a point. To add

 JB> HUH?

I meant how when I want to add an echo I don't have to
bother the sysop. That is to ask him or her (rather than go
look as it's easier to make him/her do the work heh haha)- if he or
she actually carries a particular echo. Some set ups are hard to
navigate and you ultimately need the sysops' help.

IE: On one system you can be easily confused by the LIST of echos and
the separate area where you actually SELECT or de select an echo.
IN that case I had to bother the sysop.

With my point, I don't have to wade through a long list. I just
areafix for or to delete what I want/don't want. It's just easier. And
you don't have to worry about whether or not your boos node happens to carry
a desired echo on his/her system.

One system has a list of echos with numbers. And the screen doesn't
pause every 24 lines say so you have to write the numbers down and
then put them to add/delete where the prompt finally shows up. Ugh!

..................

 CH> You can do the add delete in qwk door too but on some boards it's
 CH> tricky.

 JB> The BW door was SWEET! No passwords, but what you log on as. In your
 JB> upload zip, it would toggle on or off as you wished... FILE REQUEST
 JB> FILES... It *was* sweet!

 I did like that BW! :) It was easy! And your OLMR list had ONLY the
echos you selected.d With SLMR you have the entire kit and kaboodle
there with the selected echos 'marked'. Just a nuisance.
...........

 JB> I have no doubt this ppoint you use has come a LONG way to poinitn as

 It's probably not the latest, but it works for me. :) Frank Vest
bless his heart, got me set up with it. *Had some troubles but worked
them all through). Now I'm with Jack Yates and he helped me alter what
needed altering. We both survived! :) Frank had inspired my needed
confidence and patience that Jack expected and well ... demanded. :)
..................

JB> I knew it. We'd have to manually edit the 'allow' file, with the
JB> points preference, then turn on and off echoes as they wished from the
JB> sysop console... It was totally laborious!

 I've no idea what the boss node has to go through at their end. Only
mine. I'm grateful for the service.


Cindy

... I'm just moving clouds today; tomorrow I'll try mountains

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