TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: elist
to: mark lewis
from: Richard Webb
date: 2010-08-12 19:41:14
subject: August 2010 echolist comment

HI Mark, and TOm,

On Thu 2038-Aug-12 14:04, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Thom LaCosta:

 TL> Thanks.....now I have to cobble up a way to add that function to
 TL> the "Batch file from Hell".

 TL> Folks will need to actually edit their rules files to change the
 TL> date, as far as I can tell, the robot maintains the original date
 TL> of the file, NOT the date it was submitted.

ml> how does that work when the files are included in the body of the
ml> message? it would seem that something has to create the file on the
ml> robot's end ;) 

Yep, and, the created file takes the name that the moderator specifies I note.

WEre I doing it here, I'd create my batch by keeping same
day of month, but add 6 to month number, or appropriate
number of days by julian date.  But then, you've got year
rollover to consider.  


SOunds like fun .

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: (1:116/901)
SEEN-BY: 10/1 11/200 331 14/400 34/999 90/1 120/228 123/500 128/2 187 140/1
SEEN-BY: 222/2 226/0 236/150 249/303 250/306 261/20 38 100 1381 1404 1406 1418
SEEN-BY: 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 393/68 396/45 633/260 267 285 690/682
SEEN-BY: 712/848 800/432 801/161 189 2222/700 2320/100 105 200 5030/1256
@PATH: 116/901 3634/12 123/500 261/38 633/260 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.