12 Apr 09 04:18, Bob Ackley wrote to Earl Croasmun:

 BA> Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Bob Ackley:

 EC>> There was no e-listed moderator for a couple of years, after Bobby
 EC>> Queen's listing expired.  Hardcore fidonet junkies will argue over
 EC>> whether the e-listing is "official" or not, but I
don't much care
 EC>> about that and I doubt that you do.

 BA> You are correct about that.  When I decided to set this BBS up again
 BA> using Maximus instead of RA I took a copy of the Elist and configured
 BA> every echo listed.  95% of those listed echoes have no traffic, and
 BA> apparently are kept current in the elist by various robots and not by
 BA> people.  Shucks, Thom uses a robot to automate his elist, so it's
 BA> basically a bunch of robots talking to each other and producing a
 BA> montly listing.

The software Thom uses isn't exactly a robot. It needs the input of
moderator email/netmail updates to function. Those are input manually or
automatically at Thom's descretion (most are manually input). The monthly
reports are extracted by Thom manually and then posted by the software. I
suspect that he hasn't figured out how to do all this by batch file, thus
the manual operations are required to make it work.

                R\%/itt




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