24 Jun 15 00:51, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 AI>> I am in the process of setting up golded with Mystic, Golded+ doesn't
 AI>> internally support Mystic, does it?

 KR> If it would, i wouldn't support you. The FTN compatibiliy of mystic can be
 KR> called alpha by good will and it's not liked by many nodes i know.

mystic uses JAM (and currently SQUish) bases... the only problem is having
golded read mystic's message area definitions... it does work if one uses an
areas.bbs, though...

 AI>> Some of the areas I have here are QWK networks. Does Golded+ support
 AI>> QWK message areas?

 KR> I don't have any ged+ docs, but the goldusr.doc of golded 2.50 had an
 KR> explanation of goldeds QWK features. If you could get actual docs, user
 KR> guide and reference guide, you may find keywords like

that's if one is downloading QWK packets... i think Alan is talking about raw
message bases he has that are managed by QWK networking transfers and not end
user QWK downloads...

[...]

 AI>> I'm not exactly sure what the internal difference between QWK and FTN
 AI>> msgs except that QWK areas don't have any of the kludges that FTN
 AI>> msgs do and there is no node number on the origin line. Is there a
 AI>> setting I can use in golded's config for the QWK areas?

 KR> I'm sorry, i can remember using Yuppie!s QWK features once, but i can't
 KR> remember any details. As of goldref told me "CTRLINFO 
 KR> Enables or disables tearline and/or origin in random system groups." it
 KR> should be possible to use golded random system for qwk origin lines. It
may
 KR> be possible that the origin line is replaced by the uplink node system of
 KR> the qwk user.

QWK origin lines are different than FTN origin lines... something about the QWK
node's QWK name as the ID... QWK networks also used to have special routing
stuffs for private messages in the message areas instead of them having to be
private in netmail like FTN does...

 AI>> One last question, a couple of the nets I have here use alias/handle
 AI>> rather than real names, is there a setting that I can use with a group
 AI>> of areas to use my nickname by default?

 KR> Yes. That can be defined by goldeds random system. The standard config
file
 KR> for that is called goldrand.cfg. Don't get confused, it's more of a
 KR> template and random system.

 KR> It uses group and endgroup statements to define configuration blocks.

 KR> The group statement can be an echotag like following, where all REQUEST.*
 KR> echos use that group, or by the member line for each echoarea that should
 KR> get that config block too.

 KR> #GROUP REQUEST.*
 KR> # MEMBER 
 KR> # AKA 2:240/1351.7
 KR> #; template request.tpl
 KR> # ORIGIN "OS/2... a point of no return"
 KR> # ORIGIN "Hyperspeed SCSI-Modem: 3,2MB/s"
 KR> #TWITMODE blank
 KR> #ENDGROUP

 KR> As far as i know USERNAME is a valid keyword for the random system too.

so when starting a message reply or original, there's no way to edit the From
name and From address?? i haven't tried but i'm a long time TimED user and all
we do there is to arrow UP or shift-TAB to move back through the fields and
select from the choice box that comes up...

)\/(ark

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