29 Jan 16 03:38, you wrote to me:

 ml>> wait, what? are you ""stuck"" on one machine, one person? i certainly
 ml>> do not want other folks' mail in my stuff nor do i want mine in
 ml>> their's... they can run their own point or node with or without full
 ml>> bbs if they want and i'll run mine... long gone are the days where one
 ml>> machine is tasked with one job... now those types of things are done
 ml>> per account and machines have numerous accounts... each standing alone
 ml>> and separate from the others...

 BF>    I don't know how you start your binkd,

~/ftn/sbin/binkd -C ~/ftn/etc/binkd.conf

 BF> but here I have a DOS window reading D:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe in
 BF> the top bar.

that's a cmd window ;)

 BF> And all files, other than binkd.cfg, is automatically found by binkd
 BF> in it's current directory.

that's fine if that's the way your conf file is set up...

 BF> Isn't this a storm in a glass of water?

i don't know... i'm fine and happy with binkd the way it stands in this
regard...

my main point above was not liking forcing central system wide directories to
be used for all instances of software like binkd... better to use per user
copies /unless/ the BOfH decides they want to provide one system wide
installation... even then, though, they can specify the desired directories
within the conf file... this effectively becomes a "multi-user point system",
though, instead of being the traditional "point per user"... having private
netmail would not be so easy with everything being shared...

)\/(ark

... Where there's smoke there's pollution. - Neekha
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