VF> My thoughts on this are that no sysop that I've seen 
 VF> has actually used this feature in a sensible manner. 
 VF> Specifically, the file should link another file ONLY 
 VF> if the file is newer than the last logon. This means a 
 VF> one-time "you are entering blah area, blah, blah," 
 VF> message.
I have no operational argument with your idea, since I would agree a full 
rules dosage every time a regular user hit the echo would be overkill. But 
there are two levels of the file already available, the rules level that is 
every time a user enters an area but also a description level that only 
appears if the user is at zero in the message area.
I have at times used both - I put the full rules in the description file and 
use one color token, and put a short blurb (like the first paragraph of the 
rules) in another color with a "please remember this echo topic is......."
The order is because the description file displays first.
At other times, I left the short blurb as "rules" and put the full rules as a 
menu option. 
If I recall, I had problems trying to get the [notontoday] mecca token to do 
what I wanted directly with rules or descript but it might have been the way 
I did it a couple of years back and never took the time to bother fooling 
with it again since I had two different ways of using this already.
Just sharing thoughts on this topic.......
 
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