Re: twitlist.cfg
  By: Dumas Walker to digital man on Sun Jan 03 2021 11:29 am

 > Good morning!
 >
 > I have noticed a feature of twitlist.cfg that I did not know existed.  I
 > have been picking up a newsgroup from another FTN system.  I also then pass
 > that newsgroup along, also via FTN, to another one of my systems.
 >
 > I recently added a name to the twitlist.cfg of a user who only posts
 > one-line childish responses to every new topic that is brought up.  Once I
 > added that name to the file, not only did I stop seeing that user's posts on
 > my synchronet system, I also noticed that sbbsecho uses the twitlist.cfg
 > file and not longer passes those messages to my other system.

SBBSecho applies the twitlist when importing messages only.

 > I am hoping this is intentional but, if it is actually a bug, which source
 > files do I need to back up in future to make sure that this bug remains a
 > feature on my system?  I am thinking it might work as a future moderation
 > device in the ftn echos I moderate.  :)

Everything is backed-up on gitlab.synchro.net. I don't think you're describing
a bug.
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