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echo: points
to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: MARTIN FOSTER
date: 2020-05-01 11:28:00
subject: winpoint: 1:1/1

Hello August!

*** Saturday 25.04.20 at 17:12, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AB>>> Again, I fear I have bothered him enough. Just glad I have my
 AB>>> connection.

 AB>>> He is 1:1/1
 MF>>            ^                ?

 AA> I was getting that from the nodelist viewer too, but the name it was
 AA> showing was Jon Justvig, Fidonews Editor.  Totally strange.

Yeah but what I was questioning was that I didn't think there was such an  
address as 1:1/1

 AA> MEANWHILE, I think I solved the Winpoint Optimization problem.  It is
 AA> related to the nodelist.

Oh, OK.

 AA> Apparently, Winpoint gets confused if it finds rogue NODELIST.###
 AA> files in the NodelistDL directory.

Did you mean the DistribNL directory :)

 AA> When I cleared out the old ones, including the diffs, and freshened
 AA> it up with a recent nodelist, the NL viewer (F9) showed the correct
 AA> entries.

'scuse me but there shouldn't be any "rogue" nodelist/nodediff files in  
there anyway.

Regards,
Martin

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