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Version 157 11/28/91
This version has one fix for a problem that existed for several versions but
quite obscure - if there were less than 15 records in MAIL.DAT there was an
a 75% probability that most E comands would cause a lockup. It mostly depended
on whetehr you used E ##### as opposed to E ALL or E BACK or EL 12 or E 1, but
it was there. Thanks to Rod Schrivener for working with me on this, and apolo-
gies to Andy Funk when I said he was crazy about this bug!
One small fix, the command B has been added to the EDIT Sweeper, MAIL, and RN
commands to to an immediate disconnect and logout without having to Q then
B. The help entries in MESSAGES.RS for the sweeper command were modified to
show this new feature.
Version 156 11/11/91
CONFIG file changes - none just modify first line to "156 11/11/91"
I have not even sent along config files to cut down on excess baggage just
modify your old CONFIG date/version lines. Also please not that the
LONGIHEADER and LONGRHEADER parameters are no longer active. These
functions have now been hard coded to full 822 header and short "R:" header.
FIXES / CHANGES:
so far so good no real 'fixes' - cleaned up some cruddy code
- there are three new messages in MESSAGES.RS (MESSAGES.NEW)
they are numbered 161, 162, 163 if you want to simply transfer
them int0 an existing file.
- H_LIST has been updated once again as always. The file now reflects no
continent designators in keeping with HROUTES now routing on country. You
may want to add the NA SA, NOAM, SOAM to HROUTES for awhile til we get rid
of that foolishness. You may or may not notice that while some 159 BBSes
were dropped off for not being heard from in 180 days, there are 160 new BBS
listings dating from 9/8/91 through 11/26/91 (based of course on messages
passing through Underhill Ctr VT, which does get a high traffic volume
since we have a 15 meter outlet one BBS away in Montreal, get the ALLCAN
as well as WW, ALLBBS, and ALLUSA plus usual special as well as local
distributions. In some ways here we see more than many areas of the country)
- PUTFILE will take about half as long to do its thing
- syntax order of GETFILE, PUTFILE, MAKE (message) is now unified:
command FILENAME TO-ADDRESS other-stuff
before MAKE was odd man out
**** make sure you check the MAKE command syntax in your event files ****
- REPLY TO FLOODED MESSAGE, OPTIONAL FLOODED REPLY.
You select to reply to a Flooded message (say for instance CENSOR@ALLUSA)
the system will query the user
Reply as a Flood Bulletin (No = private reply to originator) (y/n/q)?
A Y or yes will make the message go back out as bulletin addressed to
CENSOR@ALLUSA, an N or no answer will make it a private message back to the
author of the bulletin. The Q is the same as a no.
- PUTFILE and MAKE now abort and issue a 'NOT FOUND' message when the file
in question is either not present or of zero length.
RMAIL no longer has a 'security file' check nor do the REQxxx functions. In
conversation with various sysops I determined it was only used by one or
two for a single individual. Sooo if you have an RMAIL/REQxxx (ab)USER,
simply place the HOLDMAIL parameter ON and place the troublesome
individual's call in the HOLDFROM file so when his RMAIL explodes all the
messages get held. For the REQxxx abuser put the call in the HOLDTO file.
- "R:" headers are now 'hardcoded' in short form
R:910813/2345z 12345@W1KOO.#NWVT.VT.USA
the long form is forever gone - no more advertising (#-that, Gordon!)
- Display message being replied to
When in the middle of message entry and you forget exactly whatthe guy
said, you can now type ~O or ~OV to get a short or long listing of the
message you are replying to.
- DISTRIB mods
The DISTRIB now adds the new "To:" line after the original, it no longer
replaces it.
In the DST file if you place a line *CONFIRM in by itself, the originator
of the message will get a short confirmation message that the distribution
explosion took place. This eliminates the need for having a long copy of
the actual message being sent back as confirmation
- Read counter action modified
The read count per message will not be incremented when the sysop reads any
message, except a message addressed to him when he is in super-user or
remote sysop mode. This serves several purposes. The first is that the disk
will not need to re-read and update the message record every time the sysop
reads a message - a great savings in time for XT and slow AT systems and
makes maintenace quicker. It also removes the 'bias' of sysop reading from
the use of the "-r ###" option in kill statements for automated archiving.
- Some provision has been made for a PKZIPPED to ASCII mail transfer. It
will require an external set of modules whihc I expect to release right
after the 1st of December.
****** NOTE - PLEASE READ THIS ******
- Expired Bulletins status is now 'O'
From now on when a bulletin is recieved that exceeds the BULLEXP parameter
it will be saved as status 'O' as on OLD. There is now an "-O" option to
list/edit/kill etc to deal with searching them out, as well as an edit
sweeper 'O' option to quick edit status to O.
There are several statuses of messages most of which will no longer display
in a simple LIST command. They are;
D - dupe messages
H - held messages
K - killed messages
O - old bulletins
Additionally there is an 'artificial' status 'W'. Which can only be achieed
by using the 'W' selection from the edit sweeper or editing the status to
'W'. (KB4CYC suggested that 'W' is for 'What we want to keep') A message
with this status will display. It is used to 'hold onto' a message which
would otherwise be killed out by some automated kill routines you may have
in your event file. The 'W' status is 'protected' from automated kill
unless you specify '-W' in the kill statement. So you may have a statement
in your event file that says:
M 0100 K -zbwx 60 all
which will kill any W bulletin that is over 60 days old. However automated
killing of W message defeats the purposes for whihc it is set. This
basically permits you to keep certain very old messages around. It is
better for you to do an E -W ALL and peruse them individually. This,
along with the 'hiding' of Held, Old, and Dupe messages allows the Hold
function to be better utilized.
They will not visible to a normal list. For the sysop to see messages of these
statuses you must use the "-*" so called 'showall' option or the individual
"-D", "-H", "-K", or "-O" options. This means for all automated commands
for killing these options must be invoked.
The above may seem to 'complicate' things in that you now must explicitly
list by type or do a showall. Step bak a few steps and look at the
additional flexibility it gives and 'manageability' of modem ports and
questionable accesses.
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