Ben Carpenter wrote the following to Charles Jennings, and I quote (in part):

 BC>  I do not have a problem when I reedit messages.  It is Jean Parrot 
 BC>  that is having the problem and I was just making suggestion to him 
 BC>  to try and track down the problem.

    Yep.  I noticed that when I d/led my packet.  The message was
intended for Jean.  I guess I need to be more careful when enter
messages in the wee hours ;-).  As the traffic is not heavy here I
assume that Jean will see the message.

 CJ>> If you need to add new messages try this.  Move the rep packet
 CJ>> to another directory and create a brand new rep packet.  Then
 CJ>> upload both rep packets to the door.  Or you can probably rename
 CJ>> the first packet's extension.  SX's door doesn't care what the
 CJ>> extension is.  I suspect BW may be the same.

 BC>  I have not played with it in a long time so do not remember which 
 BC>  ones, but some doors are fussy and need the "rep"
extension for QWK, 
 BC>  others may not be so fussy.  Is this a door thing or the way the 
 BC>  SYSOP has the setup for his BBS.  Not being a SYSOP I have no way of 
 BC>  determining if it can be changed.  I have no idea about the BW doors 
 BC>  as I do not remember changing the extension on any of them from 
 BC>  "new". 

   My background is in Silver Xpress and I know it doesn't care
about the extension.  But I think BW will allow extensions of rep
and rnn where n is a numeral i.e. r01 etc.  That leads me to
believe that it will accept any extension.  Easy enough to send a
test message to find out.  The SysOp creates the name portion of
the filespec.  I think that has to remain the same to prevent the
user from u/ling a rep to one BBS that was intended for another
BBS.

   I have never had a need to do so but I understand that the SX
door will allow a batch u/l of multiple rep packets.  If you are
interested you might give it a try with the BW door.

   I am not a SysOp either but I have done some experimenting.  If
you have a private message areas available you can send yourself a
private message without bothering anyone else.  Except the SysOp of
course ;-).  When I first arrived on my present BBS there was no SX
door so I used the BW door to u/l and d/l my mail packets.

   Sorry for the mis-addressed message but making new friends it
not all bad ;-).

    Later, 
      Charles

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