Hi Mark,

On 2017-01-17 18:56:55, you wrote to Mark Lewis:

 ml>> because not all areafixes are the same...
 ml>>
 ml>> personally speaking, i try to have a complete help for each areafix
 ml>> that i have to work with... sadly that's not always possible... some of
 ml>> the ones i have to work with are hpt, fastecho, dbridge, fmail, mystic,
 ml>> vfido, bbbs, mbse... i'm sure there are others... why do i have to work
 ml>> with them when i have one main feed? because they are downlinks and i
 ml>> keep asking for them to set no archiver for my system... some can and
 ml>> some cannot... some don't even offer the option in the areafix... it is
 ml>> a real crapshoot at times...

 MH> The standard is....there is no standard.

There is a proposal though: http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0057.003

And a majority of tossers conform to this more or less...

Bye, Wilfred.

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