mark lewis wrote to James Bradley, "Sorting Message Areas" on
06-02-05 18:16

 DC> I have this bad fealing that I have to do something with another
 DC> program that I really am hard trying to avoid!

 JB> I think that sinking feeling of yours is on target. AFAIK, it has
 JB> to be the dictate of the BBS numbering system. EG: Area 1 Zmail,
 JB> Area 2 Netmail will always display Zmail first on BW. I could be
 JB> wrong though, so I'll cross my fingers for you.

 ml> i think you are correct... mainly because QWK areas are number based
 ml> and not name based... if they were name based, we'd not have half
 ml> the problems we do when a BBS sysop moves areas around and
 ml> their numbers change ;)

I was using an alpha-numeric system on Max-Squish if I remember right. The BBS
I call is also using the same I believe. When I tag an area, I have to select
"int1.bluewave" or "local.general" for instance. One
look in my work directory
tells me local areas, and international ones are all jumbled into one
alphabetical mess, but the numbering to those areas sorts them into local then
international, with alphabetical sorting. (Not sure if I have any number-first
names, but they would just appear first...)

As you point out, when I was adding, and dropping areas with aplomb, the order
was quickly becoming unruly. I then found an assistant to rewrite my config,
replacing "area #..." with "area Able..." She was a
cutie too. 

BTW, had I posted to this already? I had composed a batch of replies, but the
BBS doesn't want to recognize duplicates, and I think I had too quickly axed my
last file. (Time to add a "cp /root/mmail/down/*.rep" into my script!)-:


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