Re: New Files At War Ensemble BBS
  By: Nicholas Boel to Rob Swindell on Sat Nov 04 2017 06:12 pm

 > What happens with smbutil when you don't specify an areatag to post in?
 > MYSTIC,
 > FMAIL_HELP, some German echo, and a few others have all been flooded with
 > these
 > reports, so maybe they were rescanned out by sbbsecho after he upgraded? I'm
 > clueless as to what actually happened, and am only taking wild guesses here,
 > but I had to pause his feed from here until it's figured out and fixed.

smbutil only posts msgs to local sub-boards, and only one msg per invocation of
smbutil (you pass a sub's internal code, not an areatag). It's the job of
something else (e.g. SBBSecho) to export local msgs into FTN echoes via packets
and bundles, etc. It's possible the sysop has a single local sub connected with
multiple echoes via his areas.bbs file. But that's just a guess. I only chimed
in here because someone was pointing the finger at my software and I wanted to
know why.

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